On 01/02/2013 05:47 PM, Mr Dash Four wrote: > >> I checked out arptables on Fedora. The package is arptables_jf; the >> synopsis says that: >> >> Arptables_jf is a fork of arptables from >> ebtables.sourceforge.net written by Jay Fenlason. >> >> So apparently, Jay decided that the etables team has been neglecting his >> baby and has decided to take it back. > Don't know who he is (as if I would care, though - there are a lot of > self-inflated egos in that circle who think they are the next > Ein-bloody-stein), but if he decided to fork it on his own, that's > always a bad sign, so stay well-clear indeed. I also just noticed the > version of arptables_jf (as distributed by Fedora) - 0.0.8 - that > doesn't fill me with much confidence. No wonder I couldn't get a lot of > the stuff to work "as advertised" - as my last few posts on the subject > will testify. > >> In view of this development, I'm >> not going to do anything right now. AFAICT, Jay's arptables is still a >> subset of ebtables and I think that the best long-term strategy for >> Shorewall is to support ebtables. That isn't a small project and will >> require several months to bring to fruition. >> > Seems like a wise move. >
I took another look at ebtables this morning and it doesn't seem to
support changing the source or destination IP address. I have a
requirement for that on my own firewall where I have the following in my
/etc/shorewall/init file:
if ! arptables -L -n -v | fgrep -q '10.1.10.11'; then
arptables -A OUTPUT -o eth1 -d 10.1.10.0/24 -j mangle \
--mangle-ip-s 10.1.10.11
fi
So I guess that I will go ahead and add support for both flavors of
arptables.
-Tom
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