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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Redirecting ports in a bridge
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:16:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480F6EEE.9010201@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0804231722570.13697@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On 04/23/08 10:24, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Often layer-2 transparency is not needed, but what do I know. If you 
> just log layer-3 (IP addrs) and up without caring about MAC 
> addresses, make a standard routing setup, i.e. 192.168.1.0/22 on 
> eth0, 192.168.2.0/22 on eth1, and enable forwarding; kinda like that. 
> And let hosts use 192.168.1.1/192.168.2.1 as a default gw (as they 
> already should do).

If it was not for the fact that the OP wanted layer 3 transparency, I 
would agree with you.  However the desire to insert this between a 
router and one or more systems with out changing the IP addressing 
necessitates the use of layer 2 technology, i.e. bridging.



Grant. . . .

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-23 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-18  9:27 Redirecting ports in a bridge Javier Prieto Martínez
2008-04-18 10:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-18 10:55   ` Javier Prieto Martínez
2008-04-18 11:29     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-18 11:41       ` Javier Prieto Martínez
2008-04-18 12:26         ` Marc Cozzi
2008-04-18 12:34           ` Javier Prieto Martínez
2008-04-23 15:25           ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-18 14:38         ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-21  6:55           ` Javier Prieto Martínez
2008-04-22  1:30             ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-22  6:15               ` Javier Prieto Martínez
2008-04-22 14:29                 ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-22 15:10                   ` Javier Prieto Martínez
2008-04-22 19:24                     ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-23 15:24         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-23 17:16           ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2008-04-23 18:48             ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-23 18:57               ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-24  6:15                 ` Javier Prieto Martínez
2008-04-18 14:34   ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-18 14:44 ` Grant Taylor

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