avoid ip forward replaces the source MAC address

[Christophe Aeschlimann]

On 01.02.2011 20:39, John Mahoney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Elvis Yoan Tamayo Mollares
> <etmoyares at grm.uci.cu> 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.


Indeed, have a look at :

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge

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> John

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