From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: "Ahsan, Ahmad" <ahmad.ahsan@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] ioctl function definition?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:25:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43251154.8080209@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4120021E9E68D345810AD6B696DCA8E80E7FDC@icex4.ic.ac.uk>
Ahsan, Ahmad wrote:
> hi!
>
> i have read the bridge source code, in order to modify the bridge so
> that it acts as a bridge + firewall in one. in this way, the firewall
> would be faster as data does not have to go up to the application
> layer, but only need to go up to the data link layer (where the bridge
> works).
>
That is what ebtables already does!
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2005-09-12 2:46 [Bridge] ioctl function definition? Ahsan, Ahmad
2005-09-12 5:25 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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