Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to set up a routed system, without having the routers mac address show up when the packets arrive at the destination?
As below:
CLIENT ----> MT ROUTER ----> BANDWIDTH MANAGER/DCHP SERVER
I need the bandwidth manager above to see the clients actual mac address for traffic management purposes.
I have already set up the dhcp relay in MT so that it forwards dhcp requests with the right mac address. That works, but all traffic after that shows up with the mac of the MT router.
In the past i have just set up the MT with all interfaces bridged together, but i want to start using routing in most situations for a couple of reasons. Any ideas?
The router is not performing masquerading, only natting.
The router is connecting two subnets together perfectly, i just would like mac addresses to traverse the nat if possible.
Example:
Enduser(10.0.1.50, 00:50:60:80:80:80) → wlan1-MT Router-(ether1 00:50:60:70:70:70 → bandwidth manager(172.16.0.20)
The bandwidth management device and the enduser devices can communicate together just fine, they can ping each other, etc…
BUT i need the bandwidth manager to recognize that the endusers mac address ends in 80:80 not 70:70. Otherwise all clients on that ap appear to have the same mac address.
I am not very familiar with the bridge natting function, i was hoping that i could maybe make a bridge src-nat rule that would forward the actual originating mac address…
If none of this is possible, then i will have to go back to my drawing board!