Imre Palik <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/11/15 23:29, David Miller wrote:
> > If I apply this, someone is going to try to submit a patch for every
> > damn protocol layer to add a stupid hack like this.
> 
> Actually this is one of those patches.  There is already a "stupid hack like 
> this" for iptables and arptables.  (Implemented before git history, and 
> giving me 10% speedup.  Many thanks, whoever did it.)
> 
> I also searched various LKML archives, and it seems the existing "stupid 
> hacks" for iptables and arptables haven't resulted in any related patch 
> submission in the last ten years.  (Or my google-fu is weak.)
> 
> Moreover, I cannot imagine any other reasonable on/off switch for 
> bridge-netfilter than these three.  Of course, my imagination might be 
> lacking there.

Why do you load the bridge netfilter module if you don't want it?
Loading it registers the internal hooks for the call-ip(6)tables and
sabotage hooks with NF_BRIDGE protocol so most of the NF_HOOK(NF_BRIDGE, ...
calls become active.

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