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Date:      Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:21:45 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
Cc:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Transition from modem PPP to PPPoE
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010401192033.044a6390@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10104011820240.31854-100000@spider.pilosoft. com>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010401141552.0452a6c0@localhost>

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At 05:12 PM 4/1/2001, Alex Pilosov wrote:

>I'm hacking on a 'magic box' solution, which will essentially listen for
>ARP packets from box A to box B, reply with its own MAC, and then forward
>ethernet packets back onto the same wire, rewriting the MACs
>appropriately.

Sort of like static NAT. I was thinking of giving the machine a reserved
address and doing static NAT for it, in and out of the same interface.

Only problem with this is that the box at the far end is doing NAT for
the machines behind it, too. So we'd get two layers of NAT. Slooooow.

--Brett


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