Please apply this patch from Bart De Schuymer (sp?) that updates
the Linux bridge help text (against 2.5.45).
Thanks.
--- linux-2.5.45/net/Kconfig Thu Oct 31 01:41:43 2002
+++ linux-2.5.45-bezig/net/Kconfig Sat Nov 2 12:25:21 2002
@@ -382,10 +382,10 @@
for location. Please read the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more
information.
- Note that if your box acts as a bridge, it probably contains several
- Ethernet devices, but the kernel is not able to recognize more than
- one at boot time without help; for details read the Ethernet-HOWTO,
- available from in <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
+ If you enable iptables support along with the bridge support then you
+ turn your bridge into a bridging firewall.
+ iptables will then see the IP packets being bridged, so you need to
+ take this into account when setting up your firewall rules.
If you want to compile this code as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
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