----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Cozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 4:39 AM
Subject: [Bridge] iptables ipchains netfilter or etables. Which to use?


> Greetings,
Hello,

> I just started on this using RH 7.2 on a 233MHz 2 3com NICs.
> The bridging came up straight away however, I knowing next to
> nothing about (chains) and the newer developments with netfilter
> and etables.
> I want to do basic bridging with filtering. Ideally I will want
> to use something like snort with guardian scripts to dynamically
> update the filters. Would it be better to stay with the newer
> netfilter or etables?

FYI, netfilter is a kernel architecture that gives network packets to
filters like iptables and ebtables.
I would start by finding out how iptables works and how to get it working on
a bridge. After that, learning how to use ebtables is 2 times nothing...

cheers,
Bart

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