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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:36:10 -0400
From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
Subject: Re: [Bridge] ebtables?
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 02:55:15PM -0500, Jorge# ./S wrote:
>to filter frames in the protocol layer.
>
>for example, for filtering IPX packets in an IP network.
>
>On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:42, David Barcelo wrote:
>> What is the point of ebtables?  Why would I need it?


you may also want a firewall that has no ip address yet filters ip
packets through iptables ;-)

// George


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