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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
Subject: Re: NAT Passthrough for MAC address
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:53:39 -0500
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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. . . .