From owner-freebsd-net Sun Apr 1 18:23:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E46937B71A for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:23:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02493; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:21:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010401192033.044a6390@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:21:45 -0600 To: Alex Pilosov From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Transition from modem PPP to PPPoE Cc: Wes Peters , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010401141552.0452a6c0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:12 PM 4/1/2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: >I'm hacking on a 'magic box' solution, which will essentially listen for >ARP packets from box A to box B, reply with its own MAC, and then forward >ethernet packets back onto the same wire, rewriting the MACs >appropriately. Sort of like static NAT. I was thinking of giving the machine a reserved address and doing static NAT for it, in and out of the same interface. Only problem with this is that the box at the far end is doing NAT for the machines behind it, too. So we'd get two layers of NAT. Slooooow. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message