From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ed Wildgoose Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:04:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] (no subject) Message-Id: <40FBB8DC.6090907@wildgooses.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org >I want to block the IP traffic between any 2 hosts on a switched ethernet >LAN. Will setting all the possible IP addresses on a linux machine in the >LAN do the trick or there is another easier solution? > > You need to arrange to have the linux machine running as that switch, which is unlikely to be practical. See if your switch has such options (if it's a high end device). Otherwise your best option is to segregate the two LAN's and then route or bridge between then, the linux box will do filtering in the middle. You haven't said what you are trying to achieve, so it's hard to offer better suggestions _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/