Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2011-02-02

avoid ip forward replaces the source MAC address

From: John Mahoney <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-01 19:39:10

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Elvis Yoan Tamayo Mollares
[off-list ref] wrote:
hi list, during ip forwarding process, the kernel replace the source MAC
address of the package it received with my own MAC address.. My question
is: Is there any way to avoid this behavior?
That is what routing does at the ip layer.  You may be able to
accomplish this by bridging the two ports together so that the traffic
is handled at layer 2.


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John
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