On 01.02.2011 20:39, John Mahoney wrote: > 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. Indeed, have a look at : http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge > -- > John -- Christophe Aeschlimann Embedded Software Engineer ACN Advanced Communications Networks S.A. Rue du Puits-Godet 8a 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland Tél. +41 32 724 74 31 c.aeschlimann@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies