[Gllug] Forwarding mac address...

[Andy McGarty]

> >
> > Unfortunately, now the traffic shaper thinks ALL the traffic is coming
from
> > linux box as its not seeing the originating MAC address!  I thought that
> > this was only going to happen if I used NAT/Masquerading, but if I did
> > normal routing it would pass on the original mac address.
> >
>
> Use a bridge and the ebtables patch to turn the router into a bridging
> firewall. That way the MACs and so on will fly past unchanged.
>
I did look at this during my initial investigation into the problem but it
looked quite scary?  We have a spare box here I'll load it on and give it a
try.

Thanks

Andy



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