I don't think that's true, Robin.  When I worked at Barracuda, I supported 
their web filter.  It had a bridged interface, exclusively.  It also used 
iptables for all the rules.

-- 
Hans Kokx


On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Robin Wood wrote:

> 
> On Dec 26, 2012 4:41 AM, "Nik" <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> >
> > You can create bridge interface with "brctl" and manage traffic on it
> > with iptables... 
> I'm looking for the rule to do what I need, everything else is already in 
> place.
> As far as I can tell iptables doesn't work on bridges.
> Robin
> > 2012/12/24 Robin Wood <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>:
> > > On 24 December 2012 18:09, Robin Wood <[email protected] 
> > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > >> On 23 December 2012 23:50, Robin Wood <[email protected] 
> > >> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > >>> Hi
> > >>> I need an IP tables rule that will catch all traffic going over a
> > >>> network bridge and send anything destined to port 80 to 8080. As the
> > >>> proxy that will be listening on port 8080 will modify some traffic to
> > >>> make it request from the IP of the local machine I'll need the rule to
> > >>> ignore requests to port 80 on the IP of the localhost.
> > >>>
> > >>> This is what I tried as this works with IP forwarding for things like
> > >>> ARP spoofing but this doesn't work in this instance, I think because
> > >>> there is no routing going on, the traffic is just being passed
> > >>> straight through.
> > >>>
> > >>> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --destination-port 80 ! -d
> > >>> <local-IP> -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
> > >>>
> > >>> With this rule in place, if I drop the -d I can get pages being
> > >>> requested from the web server on the local machine to be bounced
> > >>> through the proxy.
> > >>>
> > >>> How do I do it?
> > >>>
> > >>> Got a few good tools going to be based on this if I can get it to work
> > >>
> > >> A few people have suggested things but none have worked so far. To
> > >> work out which chain will affect things I've just tried the following:
> > >>
> > >> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP
> > >> iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP
> > >> iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP
> > >>
> > >> Which I think should drop all traffic heading towards port 80 but even
> > >> with those rules in place I'm still able to surf through the bridge.
> > >>
> > >> From a previous project I have a feeling that having iptables affect
> > >> bridge traffic is hard. If the device was routing traffic then the
> > >> above rules should work but as it is just bridging then it isn't
> > >> working.
> > >>
> > >> Robin
> > >
> > > I've remembered what I should be doing, I need ebtables not iptables.
> > >
> > > ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/br_fw_ia.html 
> > > (http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/br_fw_ia.html)
> > >
> > > That should get me in the middle.
> > >
> > > Robin
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