On Wednesday 2008-04-23 19:16, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 04/23/08 10:24, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Often layer-2 transparency is not needed, but what do I know. If you just log >> layer-3 (IP addrs) and up without caring about MAC addresses, make a standard >> routing setup, i.e. 192.168.1.0/22 on eth0, 192.168.2.0/22 on eth1, and >> enable forwarding; kinda like that. And let hosts use 192.168.1.1/192.168.2.1 >> as a default gw (as they already should do). > > If it was not for the fact that the OP wanted layer 3 transparency, I would > agree with you. However the desire to insert this between a router and one or > more systems with out changing the IP addressing necessitates the use of layer > 2 technology, i.e. bridging. Well what routes do clients have at the moment? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
