What is the point of ebtables? Why would I need it? -- ______ James David Barcelo Network/Systems Administration Data Junction Corporation 2201 Northland Drive Austin, Tx 78756 tel: 512-459-1308 ext. 349 cel: 512-619-3998 fax: 512-459-1309 www.datajunction.com * The contents and attachments in this email are confidential. ______
I have two questions along this vein: Does it offer any features over iptables for just IP users? Does that mean (and I think it does) that without ebtables IPX traffic would pass a bridge, such as the one this list is for, uninhibited? -----Original Message----- From: bridge-admin@lists.osdl.org [mailto:bridge-admin@lists.osdl.org]On Behalf Of Jorge# ./S Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:55 PM To: dbarcelo@datajunction.com Cc: bridge@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [Bridge] ebtables? to filter frames in the protocol layer. for example, for filtering IPX packets in an IP network. On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:42, David Barcelo wrote:> What is the point of ebtables? Why would I need it?-- Jorge# ./S <jorge@kernel-panik.org> _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
to filter frames in the protocol layer. for example, for filtering IPX packets in an IP network. On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:42, David Barcelo wrote:> What is the point of ebtables? Why would I need it?-- Jorge# ./S <jorge@kernel-panik.org>
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 23:42, David Barcelo wrote:> What is the point of ebtables?See to http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/> Why would I need it?Who know why?... ;) To filter ethernet frames (on link Layer), but not only an ip packets (on Network Layer) on Your Linux-powered bridge (because bridge is [mostly] Layer 2 (Linkk Layer) device)> Does it offer any features over iptables for just IP users?See the iptables/ebtables interaction: http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/br_fw_ia.html> Does that mean (and I think it does) that without ebtables IPX trafficwould pass a bridge, such as the one this list is for, uninhibited? http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#what -- Best regards, Nick Fedchik FNM3-RIPE(-UANIC) http://www.fedchik.org.ua