Re: Quick Question: Does Linux support bridging and firewalling at the same time?

[Sven Koch <haegar@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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