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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
> 
>


  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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