Re: transparent bridge troubles?

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

Well I did this and I guess I have a firewall problem which I guess is the 
good news and the right user group.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Opperisano" <opie@817west.com>
To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: transparent bridge troubles?


> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:01:47PM -0500, mdpeters wrote:
>> Both host and target have no information about the bridge | firewall in 
>> the
>> middle.
>
> the arp caches of hosts on either side of the firewall should have
> entries for hosts on the other side though.  try and ping from a host
> on one side of the firewall to a host on the other side of the firewall.
> after the ping, type "arp -an" on the host you pinged from; if you don't
> have an entry for the host you pinged--you have a bridge problem.  if
> you do have an arp entry, but the ping didn't work--you have a firewall
> problem.
>
> -j
>
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