How to force a connection to go out of machine?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 07:18:07PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Well, with consumer level routers, the WiFi is generally bridged to
> the Ethernet, so it's not going to make any difference.  As for
> allowing foreign addresses, as I mentioned, that's basic firewall
> stuff and it would have to be a crappy firewall that allowed it.  In
> short, the router portion should not pass any traffic from an
> address that's not within it's configured subnet.  This is done to
> prevent spoofing.  On the other hand, industrial level routers can
> be configured to do that, with appropriate rules.

Actually many routers I have seen have the wlan software bridged to the
lan ports.

In fact I am not sure I have ever seen one that wasn't done that way
given the AP has to control the wifi port a lot, which would perhaps be
harder if it was hardware bridged to the switch chip.

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Len Sorensen
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