On Friday 28 February 2003 08:06, S Mohan wrote:
> I'm using a bridge and want to use firewalling on that. As it stands,
> without etables, it looks like iptables filtering can only be done on the
> FORWARD chain. I, however, need to use direction on interfaces and states
> to do a proper filtering job. I read thro' what ebtables had to offer.

iptables PREROUTING and POSTROUTING work too for bridged frames.

> I am looking for a confirmation that ebtables syntax is identical to
> iptables syntax. If so, I can rewrite my script generator to use iptables
> if it is a router and ebtables if it is a bridge. **Clarification** all
> iptables syntax will work in ebtables (vice versa not mandatory).

There are differences, read the manual.

-- 
cheers,
Bart

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