snat bridge routes reply packets

Henrik Nordstrom hno at marasystems.com
Fri Sep 30 13:24:26 CEST 2005


On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Martijn Lievaart wrote:

> Ah, now I see. The unknown network mesh uses multiple routers which are 
> unknown to the bridge, so the bridge does not know where to route the return 
> packets, although it could know if it saved the mac the original packet came 
> from. Right?

This is my understanding of the original question, yes.

Regards
Henrik



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