On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:34:15PM +0100, RoMaNSoFt wrote:

> 1) I've set up a two-ports bridge named "br0". I've done some fast
> tests. I can filtering by eth0, eth1 and br0 but I haven't got clear
> which chains could I use with the various interfaces. I think bridge's
> faq said that currently only the forward chain would work

Can you recall where exactly you read this?


> but it seems
> other chains also work (input, eg). Is somebody so kind to talk about
> this issue?

All chains should working (including the NAT ones).


> 2) Another Q: since I only want to use this machine as firewall does
> it make sense to filtering by using the br0 device? I mean, perhaps
> it's faster and more reliable to filter basing on eth0 and eth1
> devices, isn't it? Some tips about this issue?

I'm not sure what exactly you mean here.


> 3) Has someone tried to benchmark a machine like this? (fw based on
> linux+bridge+iptables). For instance, which processor and amount of
> memory could it be necessary to reach a 100 MB/s throughtput with a
> x86 machine?

I haven't done extensive benchmarks, but I know that a dual PIII 800 is
pretty bored with 120Mbit.


cheers,
Lennert
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