From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22C=2E_Bergstr=F6m=22?= Subject: Re: ebtables v/s arptables Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:55:33 +0300 Message-ID: <467237E5.9020400@netsyncro.com> References: <1181755998.2976.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1181837804.2972.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org 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 pankaj jain wrote: > > On 6/15/07, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> On Jun 15 2007 10:51, pankaj jain wrote: >> > >> > Hi Bart, >> > Do I have to create a bridge to use "arpreply --arpreply-mac > > address>" as a target. >> > I am asking this because I was not getting arp responses from the >> > machine where I inserted the ebtable rule but did not create a bridge. >> >> Of course. Ebtables works ONLY with bridges. So you create >> your regular eth0 or whatever, give it its ip address, and >> create a br0 device that binds eth0, but do not give br0 >> any address. (That's how one preferably does it if you only >> need arpreply.) >> >> And don't top post. >> >> > Hi Jan, > I am sorry I did not get the meaning of last line "And don't top post." > > I would also want to know is there any theoretical limit on number of > iptable , ebtable, arptable rules we can set? > I'm just a lurker, but this link may help. http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#toppost Good luck ./C