In some email I received from Carson Gaspar, sie wrote: > > > --On Friday, June 14, 2002 6:41 PM +1000 Darren Reed > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the case I presented for the FTP proxy, there was no actual translation > > happening. All that was being done is using the proxy to drive the state > > table in order to allow the appropriate connection(s). > > OK, so color me confused. If the NAT code is receiving the packet, and > processing it, why on earth can't it re-write the addresses? Or is this an > inbound/outbound packet path issue?
Because bridges generally sit in the middle of a network where the same IP network addresses are being used on both sides and network to MAC address discovery is done using ARP. Maybe if you linked the NAT code into the ARP code in some way, you could make NAT work on a bridge. Darren
