packet flow - ebtables broute DROP target

[Aijaz Baig <aijazbaig1@gmail.com>]

Hello people,

Im relatively new to the ebtables + iptables firewalling architecture. I
have read the ebtables and iptables firewall interaction document and
also seen the GIF specified at the end of the document. For those
unfamiliar with it, here are the links to the same:
http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/br_fw_ia.html for the document
and http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/PacketFlow.png for the
picture.

Im trying to understand what happens to a packet which is DROPped in the
BROUTING chain of the broute table. If I have understood correctly from
the document above, it goes to L3 where the routing subsystem can decide
where to send the packet to depending on L3 information in it isn't it?
So i'm assuming that the first place it should be visible should be the
PREROUTING chain of the mangle table isn't it? But I tried with a LOG
target rule matching the criteria I used in constructing the DROP target
in the broute table's BROUTING chain. 

And then after that I checked the packet counters for both the rules
viz. the one in the BROUTING chain and the one in the PREROUTING chain
of the mangle table. The packet did hit the first rule and it is
dropped. I cannot see it on br0, the bridge interface too. But the
packet count in the latter rule is 0 which means that the packet didnt
arrive in the mangle table's
PREhttp://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/PacketFlow.pngROUTING chain.
But this behavior is contrary to what the GIF above shows.

Im rather confused. Please do shed some light on it if people have had
similar experiences before.

I am keen to hear from you,

Regards,
Aijaz Baig.