----- 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 _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
