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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
Subject: Re: Bridging netfilter and forwarding
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:15:16 -0500
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On 07/21/11 11:05, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> There is a recurring theme of people that want to forward link
> local multicast and other packets. There is a patch that adds a mask
> value, but I would prefer a more general solution using netfilter/ebtables.
>
> Is there some way to use actions to do this better?
> Or change the existing NF_HOOK somehow do this.

Can you not do this with a bridging router (a.k.a. brouter)?



Grant. . . .