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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NAT Passthrough for MAC address
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:53:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48CAACA3.9090508@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13c27d00809120904o773c622fp8d35d720b3d47916@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/12/08 11:04, Karthik V wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a way to perform NAT passthrough of
> MAC address.

I don't know if you will be able to do this will IPTables or not.  I 
think you will have much better luck looking at bridging, namely a 
bridging router.  You can bridge the traffic to / from the MAC(s) you 
want while still doing normal routing for the rest of your LAN.

> I have a OpenWRT router and would like to passthrough the MAC address
> of my LAN client on the WAN but retain NAT/Masquerading for other LAN
> entities in the same subnet.


Grant. . . .

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12 17:53 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <13c27d00809120825o1b7756afx608740fa4548ca11@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-12 16:04 ` NAT Passthrough for MAC address Karthik V
2008-09-12 17:53   ` Grant Taylor [this message]

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