IP Masquarade & MAC Address

A Duston hald at sound.net
Tue Sep 19 02:56:28 CDT 2000


Dale,

I don't believe so, a mac address is only good for a single hop.  As each router

forwards on the packet it puts its own mac address as the source, and the mac
address of the next hop as the destination.

Hal Duston

Dale Beams wrote:

> I understand that PC can still be seen from behind a firewall or ip
> masquarade or lynksys 4 port cable router by thier mac address ... correct ?




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