Re: transparent bridge troubles?

["mdpeters" <michael.peters@lazarusalliance.com>]

[-]arp Enable or disable the use of the ARP protocol on this interface.

I was told to do that by the Snort folks but maybe .... not?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Opperisano" <opie@817west.com>
To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: transparent bridge troubles?


> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:53:48PM -0500, mdpeters wrote:
>> This is my bridge setup:
>> 
>> /sbin/modprobe ip_queue
>> /sbin/ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
>> /sbin/ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0
>> /usr/local/sbin/brctl addbr br0
>> /usr/local/sbin/brctl addif br0 eth1
>> /usr/local/sbin/brctl addif br0 eth2
>> /sbin/ifconfig br0 up
>> /usr/local/sbin/brctl stp br0 off
>> /sbin/ifconfig br0 0.0.0.0 -arp
> 
> i'm a little rusty on my linux bridging commands--but why did you
> execute that last command?  the "ifconfig br0 0.0.0.0 -arp" one.  it
> seems like that would block arp traffic from traversing the bridge, but
> i could be mistaken...
> 
> -j
> 
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