Hey,

What you want is probably proxy ARP or something.  Bridges don't change
MAC addresses by themselves.


cheers --Lennert


On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 05:36:50AM +0000, Dan Popovici wrote:

> Hi there,
> Here is what i plan but is not working:
> 
> computer 1 = ETH0
> =>-------------------<=ETH0=bridge=ARC0E=>-------------<=ARC0E=computer2
> 
> so.. I would like to add an interface arc0 to the bridge. I made the
> requested encapsulation of the ARCnet in order to get an ETHERNET
> interface. Now I have an ARC0e that is the arcnet with ethernet
> encapsulation. It has a MAC address automaticaly generated according to
> the ID of the arcnet NIC.
> 
> now I'm trying to bring up the bridge by adding the eth0 and arc0e and
> it's working without any problem.
> I try to ping computer 1 from computer 2 but as far I can see the bridge
> is not changing the MAC of the ARC0e interface with the mac of the ARC0E
> interface of the computer2,  adn so I'm not receiving any package in the
> eth0 of the computer1. When I'm trying to ping computer 2 from computer
> 1 in the ARC0e interface of the computer 2 I can see the packages
> comming but it seems that the reply is not reaching computer1.
> 
> Is there any solution for making the bridge to replace the MAC adress of
> the arcnet interface with the mac of the computer2????????????????
> 
> best regards,
> =m0nk=
> 
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