Re: ip routing after changing mac address to a virtual one

[Mike <1100100@gmail.com>]

trying to understand your question better -- does eth1 use dhcp to get
a connection from the ISP?

On 11/25/06, first last <doctor_konkord@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
>  I have a SuSE Linux box with two network interfaces.
> An ethernet which I use to connect to the ISP, and a
> wireless interface to share Internet with my room
> mate. The problem is when I change the MAC address of
> my ethernet card (eth1) in order to get a different IP
> address from ISP, iptables no longer does the
> masquerading, thus my friend can't access to the
> Internet anymore. I try to restart iptables but
> nothing happens. Our guess is that iptables uses real
> mac addresses of network interfaces to forward and NAT
> ip packets, so it doesn't work with virtual MAC
> address.
>
> can anyone please suggest a solution to this issue?
>
> Thank you very much
>
>
>
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