Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g1R2QLb22885 for netdev-outgoing; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:26:21 -0800 Received: from comunit.de (comunit.de [195.21.213.33]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g1R2QH922878 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:26:17 -0800 Received: (qmail 6650 invoked by uid 517); 27 Feb 2002 01:26:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 02:26:00 +0100 (CET) From: Sven Koch X-X-Sender: haegar@space.comunit.de To: Andy Jones cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Quick Question: Does Linux support bridging and firewalling at the same time? In-Reply-To: <200202262312.g1QNCit28708@bliss.commerce.uq.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Content-Length: 699 Lines: 23 On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Andy Jones wrote: > It is my understanding that the firewalling and bridging code > in the Linux kernel is mutually exclusive, though according > to guides and HOWTOs etc on the net, it seems to be a metter > of some confusion. > > Could you shed some light on whether it is, or isn't, and/or > which patches need to be applied or whether it's simpler to > just use some sort of BSD instead... With a stock kernel, firewalling bridged connections is not possible. With the patch from http://bridge.sourceforge.net/download.html ist is. c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/)