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From: Patrick Schaaf <bof@bof.de>
To: Joe Patterson <jpatterson@asgardgroup.com>
Cc: netfilter@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: bridging with iptables (was no subject)
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 09:13:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020630091342.U4136@oknodo.bof.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NJEFLNJDIFFNMHDEBKMJGEJGDOAA.jpatterson@asgardgroup.com>; from jpatterson@asgardgroup.com on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:01:34AM -0400

Hi Joe,

> Does anyone know how netfilter deals with non-ip protocols?

Yes. It doesn't deal with them at all, as delivered "out of the box".

Here's a dump of what I know about the situation:

- netfilter is a set of hooks placed in stratetic places in the L3 networking
  stack. Right now there are hooks for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and I think there's
  also something for DecNET, which I don't now nothing about.
- the hooks are all _inside_ the L3 stack.
- iptables is a user of the hooks put into the IPv4 stack.
- ip6tables is a user of the hooks put into the IPv6 stack.
- arptables is a user of the hooks put into the ARP stack.
- there is a patch to place netfilter hooks into the bridge code,
  which _may_ be capable of filtering by ethernet protocol type.
  I have not used it or looked closely. See http://bridge.sourceforge.net/

I don't think that there is any code right now which is able to filter
on IPX or AppleTalk header fields.

best regards
  Patrick


  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-30  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-28 22:39 bridging with iptables (was no subject) riffraff
2002-06-28 22:53 ` Antony Stone
2002-06-28 23:50   ` Martin Josefsson
2002-06-30  4:01     ` Joe Patterson
2002-06-30  7:13       ` Patrick Schaaf [this message]
2002-06-30 12:21         ` Martin Josefsson
     [not found] <000901c1000a$8aaa63e0$4d2848c7@shaggy>
2002-06-28 19:48 ` (no subject) Antony Stone
2002-06-28 20:02   ` Patrick Schaaf
2002-06-28 20:00     ` Antony Stone
2002-06-28 22:22       ` bridging with iptables (was no subject) Jack Bowling
2002-06-28 22:29         ` Antony Stone

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