On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:00:20PM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> I was receiving the 6to4 traffic, but for some strange reason only known to 
> $deity, the beloved Livebox decided to just forget about the whole address
> translation business, and just dump it on the internal network. One can only
> assume that it failed to map the 192.168.5.10 address back as well.
> 
> In a desperate mood of "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" I decided to remove
> the ipnat entry, and presto: It works!
> 
> 19:58:17.082925 IP s559154c5.adsl.wanadoo.nl > 192.88.99.1: 2002:5591:54c5:1::1 > toad.stack.nl: icmp6: echo request seq 11
> 19:58:17.126136 IP 192.88.99.1 > s559154c5.adsl.wanadoo.nl: toad.stack.nl > 2002:5591:54c5:1::1: icmp6: echo reply seq 11
> 

I'm curious: how did the Livebox know what is the MAC address for
s559154c5.adsl.wanadoo.nl on the local Ethernet segment?

Pavel Cahyna