Re: Ebtables usage

[Jacky Lam <lamshuyin@gmail.com>]

On 2/16/2011 4:50 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Jacky Lam a écrit :
>> I want to share a network service by two computers but I don't have
>> any extra router or switch, but one computer has 2 ethernet cards and
>> running Linux. But that computer is old and slow. So I want to know if
>> I can set up that computer as a ethernet level switch/bridge.
> What kind of network service ? Is that service running on the old computer ?
> You can set up a computer as an ethernet bridge, but that old computer
> may not be fast enough to handle gigabit traffic.
>
I mean the internet service. Yes, the old computer is very slow. That's 
why I want to lower the overhead while being a switch.
>> That means I am done right (except the two rules at the beginning) to
>> setup a ethernet switch? I don't need to setup any rules by iptables
>> or ebtables?
> You need iptables and ebtables rules for IP and ethernet packet
> filtering and mangling. You don't need them if the box does only plain
> routing or bridging.
>
Thanks.