Re: avoid ip forward replaces the source MAC address

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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Elvis Yoan Tamayo Mollares
<etmoyares@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.


--
John

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