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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Omar Armas <oarmas@mpsnet.net.mx>
Cc: bridge@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] problem bridging
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:46:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070125104604.613432d4@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <969A8B08-19EE-445B-AAFB-2A9D8D3D5CE7@mpsnet.net.mx>

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:19:14 -0600
Omar Armas <oarmas@mpsnet.net.mx> wrote:

> Hi, I did a bridge with kernel 2.4.34 and two intel e1000 network cards.
> 
> I setup the bridge with:
> 
>      /usr/sbin/brctl addbr br0
>      /usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 eth0
>      /usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 eth1

>      /sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc
>      /sbin/ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 promisc

These two are unnecessary the bridge does it itself.

>      /sbin/ifconfig br0 up
> 
> My configuration is:
> 
> router
> |
> Bridge
> |
> LAN
> 
> 
> but my problem is that it always passes all traffic, no matter if I  
> set FOWARD iptables chain to DROP:
> iptables -P FORWARD DROP

iptables FORWARD rules apply to routing not bridging

See:
	http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/br_fw_ia.html#section6


> When I do this the all traffic and protocols continue passing.
> Any idea why?
> 
> 


-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-25 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-24 20:19 [Bridge] problem bridging Omar Armas
2007-01-25 18:46 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-01-25 19:08   ` Omar Armas
2007-01-25 19:09     ` Stephen Hemminger

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