Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:30:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Cc: jlemon@americantv.com, stt@pluto.cpe.ku.ac.th, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel modification Message-ID: <199710302230.PAA03009@usr03.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199710300610.EAA27511@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Oct 30, 97 04:10:20 am
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> #define quoting(Jonathan Lemon) > // I can't see why you would want to re-transmit with the original MAC > // address; this would cause arp lookups to fail, among other things. > // > // Even bridges put their own MAC address in the frame. > > Are you nuts ? Just think: How would ARP work between machines > separated by bridges ? The bridge pretends to not be there if the source and the dest are on the same side of the interface. It rememebrs this. If the source and dest are on different interfaces, it proxies and fakes the MAC address. So the short answer is "transparently and well". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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