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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!

      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-12  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-12  2:46 [Bridge] ioctl function definition? Ahsan, Ahmad
2005-09-12  5:25 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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