From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart De Schuymer Subject: Re: ebtables v/s arptables Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:16:44 +0200 Message-ID: <1181837804.2972.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1181755998.2976.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org To: pankaj jain Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Op do, 14-06-2007 te 13:55 +0530, schreef pankaj jain: > Hi Bart, > I am quite new to these concepts and tools, > It would be great if you could please elaborate the statement and > throw some light on arptables also. > I believe for ebtables to work , we have to create a bridge interface also. > without creating a bridge I was not able to respond to arp requests > for IPs which are with me but are not plumbed on any interface. That's correct. If you don't need a bridge (you're not forwarding based on MAC addresses) you should probably not use one. It's possible to get packets sent to ebtables on a device with only one network interface, though. See http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/examples.html#ex_nobridge > Does ip_forwarding have any impact on arptables and ebtables. No. cheers, Bart