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EtherRewrite

rewrite source and destination Ethernet address

SYNOPSIS§

EtherRewrite(SRC, DST)

Batching: Batching natively supported
Ports: 1 input, 1 output
Processing: agnostic

DESCRIPTION§

Rewrite the source and the destination address in the Ethernet header. The ETHERTYPE is left untouched.

EXAMPLES§

Ensure that source address of all packets passing by is 1\:1\:1\:1\:1:1, and the destination address is 2\:2\:2\:2\:2\:2:

  EtherRewrite(1:1:1:1:1:1, 2:2:2:2:2:2)

NOTES§

This element is useful if there is only one possible nexthop on a given link (such as for a network-layer transparent firewall), meaning that source and destination ethernet address will always be the same for a given output.

ELEMENT HANDLERS§

  • src (read/write) — Return or set the SRC parameter.
  • dst (read/write) — Return or set the DST parameter.

SEE ALSO§

EtherEncap, EtherVLANEncap, ARPQuerier, EnsureEther, StoreEtherAddress

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