From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Wright Subject: Re: Forward packets from one interface to another? Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:13:44 -0800 Message-ID: <4988C198.2030802@mailinator.com> References: <200902031753.59283.Karlis.Repsons@gmail.com> <200902031940.09273.Karlis.Repsons@gmail.com> <49889fd0.1c078e0a.6cc4.ffff9618@mx.google.com> <200902032004.44533.Karlis.Repsons@gmail.com> <4988B92D.8040201@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4988B92D.8040201@hp.com> Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Rick Jones Cc: 'netfilter' Rick Jones wrote: > bsilva wrote: > >> You can use either routing/forwarding or bridging for this problem, > > If instead, you further subnettted 192.168.1 with a /25 on the PCs (but > still a /24 on the router), the Router/Firewall wouldn't have to know > about the other subnet. It could just blythly ass-u-me that the end-PC > was on the same network segment as the middle PC. So long as the middle > PC was configured with a static, public ARP entry for the IP of the end > PC, and had ip_forwarding enabled, it would "front" for the end PC. Hi Rick, That's a nice tip. How does the middle PC setup the static, public ARP entry? Arptables? Example? Very curious about how this is done. tia, Mike Wright :m)