Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Always! the same two Physical addresses:

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From: Reaper <Reaper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 15 Feb 2003 13:36:57 -0800
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 06:06, James Fields wrote:

> Remember - MACs are not meant to be "end-to-end" addressesing - they are
> Layer 2 controls to track who put a packet on the wire and who is allowed to
> pluck it off.  In other words, MAC addresses are hop-to-hop.  If the Gateway
> needs to send anything to anyone off segment, he has to forward it to the
> MAC address of the DSL router's inside interface for delivery.  And anything
> that comes in from the Internet on the way back to the Gateway is delivered
> by that same interface.

Okay that's the behavior I was seeing, and thought it was probably
correct, just wanted to be sure.

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Thanks
T.G Reaper
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