On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Brett Glass 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.
NAT without rewriting IP headers. Better called "bridge with proxy-arp".
> 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.
Not really. When you are not rewriting packets, what's to slow you down?
And by requirements, packets from A to B _do_ have to go through central
site.
-alex
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