--snat-arp coming? or should I find any other aproach?

Hi!

I'm trying to bridge together a couple of ethernet devices and a wireless
one, the wireless AP does of course drop all the packages that come from an
unassociated mac into its wireless interface, so I thought I could snat the
MAC addresses of the packages going out of my bridge through it's wireless
interface into the AP, and so I set up ebtables with an snat rule.

I really thought this was a good idea but then I realised that it was not
working because of the MAC addresses inside the ARPs not being natted,
trying to solve that was when I got to the web page of the documentation
where it says on the TODO list:

Add --snat-arp option, which changes the arp source device in the payload
when the source MAC address of an ARP frame is changed.

I suppose that this has been a todo for a lot of time, but it is really what
I needed for my setup, so I'm trying to get to know if there is a patch to
implement this somewhere, if it would be easy to implement, or if I should
approach my setup in a different way (until now I had two proxy arped
networks but I wanted to bridged them together).

I really find the --snat-arp option a great idea, and can't understand how
somebody using snat can live without it, so I'm thinking I'm missing
something on this (I've seen the arp-reply stuff but doesn't really fit in
my setup).

This would be the rough schema of the net:

Ethernet --- Bridge ---- Wifi --- AP --- LAN
Ethernet -----|

Any ideas on how to aproach this will be welcome.

Regards...
-- 
Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net

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