From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Taylor Subject: Re: Bridges Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:44:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4C7048A2.1080408@riverviewtech.net> References: <4C6B10CA.4090604@abpni.co.uk> <4C6C55C8.5000905@riverviewtech.net> <4C6C5739.5040106@abpni.co.uk> <4C6C59E2.4080307@riverviewtech.net> <4C6C5B87.9070906@abpni.co.uk> <4C6C63EF.7060305@abpni.co.uk> <4C6C6731.50401@plouf.fr.eu.org> <4C6C67A6.9010405@abpni.co.uk> <4C6C6AED.3090008@plouf.fr.eu.org> <4C6C70B6.7050200@abpni.co.uk> <4C6CDC91.6060804@plouf.fr.eu.org> <4C6D7C42.9060409@abpni.co.uk> <4C6D857B.1070906@plouf.fr.eu.org> <4C6D87E3.9080207@abpni.co.uk> <4C6D9E9F.3080507@plouf.fr.eu.org> <4C6DA0F1.80909@abpni.co.uk> <4C6DAA53.70702@plouf.fr.eu.org> <4C6E4550.1020808@plouf.fr.eu.org> <4C6E583D.7070706@plouf.fr.eu.org> <4C6EA72E.9050501@riverviewtech.net> <4C6FCB0A.9030402@plouf.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C6FCB0A.9030402@plouf.fr.eu.org> Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Mail List - Netfilter Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Ethernet does not carry only IP and ARP. There are other protocols in > use out there. One may want to do MAC-based filtering and mangling on > normal ethernet interfaces. Agreed. However I do think (my opinion is) that IP is by far the simple majority of traffic. Other protocols are less common and closer to the special use scenario than they are away from it. > IMO restricting ebtables to bridges would be like restricting iptables > to routers. I in no way was implying that EBTables should be restricted. Rather I was commenting on what I believe the use scenario is, /now/ any form of restriction. Grant. . . .