Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Pinging two devices on the same IP address

[Mick]

On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:12:07 -0400
>
> "Mark Shields" <laebshade@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Forwarding echo request/response packets (ICMP), maybe?
>
> Yeah, that's what I thought, too.  But wouldn't that require an IP?  Or
> at least -- at the very least -- a MAC address for Ethernet-layer
> transmission of some kind?

Thanks guys.  The AP has a reserved static LAN IP address on the router 
(10.10.10.13).  It also has a MAC.  So it is simply a matter of forwarding 
(all) ICMP echo-reply packets that arrive from the Internet to that LAN 
address. (On this implementation the AP is itself a Linksys wireless router).

I wonder if I can play tricks with ping's ICMP headers to differentiate 
between them as they come into the router, or something clever that I haven't 
yet figured out.  Any ideas?
-- 
Regards,
Mick