hi there,
i'd like to know if it's possible to tell a linux router
to route packets from one net to another, even when it's
not used as an IP-gateway ? (sounds like firewall)
so it work like this:
host A in net 1 wants to send a packet to host B in net 2.
host A's internal routes point net 1 and net 2 to the same
interface (no gateway for net2).
(virtually the same network, but physically two different nets)
the router then would lie on host B's address from A's view,
take the packets and send them to the other (phys.) net.
sounds like an kind of masquarading.
(would also mean to masq. arp)
this would a) ease network administration (only the admin
has to know the gateways IP-addr) and b) reduce the size
of the routed packets.
bye,
ew.
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