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Re: Iptable NAT problem - ARP ?



In article <[🔎] 20040812142650.13397.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com> 
cheako911@yahoo.com writes:
>IFIRC proxy_arp was/is replaced by dnat.  What you need is an IP in the
>same subnet as your external IP that you then use on your internel
>network.  When you turn on proxy_arp on your external interface it will
>pass all external arp requests onto your internal network and proxy any
>replys.  This allows for a "transparent router" aka a bridge.

DNAT and proxy-arp are differnt things sometimes used for similar
purpouses.  I use both on the same firewall.  A bridge is something
else again, that routes based on ethernet rather than ip headers and
does not add an ip hop to the traffic.
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