Re: Rewrite arp response with nft

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

G H <uothrawn@yahoo.com> wrote:
>  On early versions of Linux, I could use ebtables to rewrite the ARP packet using the below command. This ensures that the switch would only see MAC address 00:50:56:96:12:5e, not aa:18:f0:55:79:1e.
> 
> ebtables -t nat -I POSTROUTING --logical-out br0 --src aa:18:f0:55:79:1e \
>       -j snat --to-src 00:50:56:96:12:5e --snat-arp --snat-target ACCEPT
>       
> I can get close to recreating this with nftables, but it is missing the functionality provided by the --snat-arp argument.
> 
> table bridge filter {
>     chain POSTROUTING {
>         type filter hook postrouting priority 0; policy accept;
>         ether saddr aa:18:f0:55:79:1e ether saddr set 00:50:56:96:12:5e
>     }
> }
> 
> My outgoing ARP packet has its source MAC address rewritten successfully, but the "is-at" still points to the original MAC address. How do I alter the outbound ARP response to set "is-at" to point to 00:50:56:96:12:5e?

No idea, but you might want to look at the "arp" payload expression.

Maybe:
arp operation reply arp daddr ether set ...