Very cool.
Thank you!
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:52 PM
To: Munday, Merrick
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Bridge] iptables
"Munday, Merrick" wrote:
> In a normal iptables implementation, you are correct. The forward
> chain is used for any packets passing through the box, while the input
> and output chains apply to packets from or to the iptables machine
> itself. However, I thought that the bridging code would only use a
> chain that had been given the same name as the bridge, at least under
> ipchains.
>
> Has this changed with iptables? Or has the bridging code itself
> changed?
The netfilter integration is very different from ipchains and no longer
requires such oddities. Please see Lennerts small bridge-netfilter
README <http://bridge.sourceforge.net/devel/bridge-nf/README>
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Henrik Nordstrom
MARA Systems AB
