From: liyas_m m <liyasmm@gmail.com>
To: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: firewall ignore the rule
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:10:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2452665f0507131910300b00de@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050714020155.GA26028@bender.817west.com>
so how do i block that source from transmitting/broadcasting packet?
On 7/14/05, Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:55:23AM +0800, liyas_m m wrote:
> > i have done that and checked with ethereal..still that source address
> > is not blocked. It is still broadcasting ARP packets..a lot.
>
> iptables/netfilter operates at layer 3. therefore, packets generated or
> received at layer 2 cannot be blocked with iptables/netfilter.
> ethereal/iptraf operate at the BPF layer (layer 2), and arp packets are
> layer 2 as well.
>
> iptables/netfilter is not at fault; you have an invalid testing
> methodology.
>
> -j
>
> --
> "Peter: Brian, there's a message in my Alpha Bits. It says "OOOOOO".
> Brian: Peter, those are Cheerios."
> --Family Guy
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-14 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-13 10:52 firewall ignore the rule liyas_m m
2005-07-13 10:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-13 11:08 ` Cedric Blancher
2005-07-14 1:55 ` liyas_m m
2005-07-14 2:01 ` Jason Opperisano
2005-07-14 2:10 ` liyas_m m [this message]
2005-07-14 2:10 ` Jason Opperisano
2005-07-14 2:19 ` liyas_m m
2005-07-14 2:24 ` Jason Opperisano
2005-07-14 2:39 ` Ishwar Rattan
2005-07-14 2:45 ` Jason Opperisano
2005-07-14 15:03 ` Nikolai Alexandrov
2005-07-14 9:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
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