Re: physdev match

[Mohamed Eldesoky <eldesoky.lists@gmail.com>]

Well, the patch had some failures.
I saw it has the physdev in the patch !!


patching file include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_physdev.h

Will this patch add the physdev match ??
I am thinking about going with a stock kernel !!


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:17:11 +0100, Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 September 2004 12:01, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:
> > ummm
> > I was looking at the possibilities.
> > Also, what if I don't want to use ebtables !!
> 
> 'ebtables' is just a round-all term for what became of the 'bridge
> firewalling' code. You don't need to use the 'ebtables' binary at all if all
> you want to do is apply firewall rules on a bridged system.
> 
> However, it remains to be seen whether the ebtables code would even patch
> successfully on an RHEL kernel source, plus if using a 'Real' Red Hat kernel
> is important to you, then you'll obviously not want to recompile at all.
> 
> Unless RHEL already contains the support (look for 'Bridge firewalling
> registered' in the 'dmesg' output from boot time) then you're a bit stuck.
> 
> Of course, all this talk of ebtables is now off topic =)
> 
> Cheers,
> Gavin.
> 
> 



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