Re: Redirecting ports in a bridge

["Javier Prieto Martínez" <javier.prieto.ext@juntadeandalucia.es>]

> Ok, to me logging is recording information and filtering is either 
> allowing traffic to pass or not.  Based on your original post it 
> sounds like you are wanting to do some re-direction of traffic too.  
> Is this correct?

Yes. We are logging and filtering right now, but we want to redirect 
traffic too.

> The bridge can not be totally transparent and change things at the 
> same time.  If you are having the bridge change things, the network 
> will operate differently with it in verses out of service.  Please 
> clarify what you are wanting.
The point is we want the bridge to be transparent except for one 
particular redirection we want to do :-)

> Remember that IPTables operates on layer 3 and EBTables operates on 
> layer 2.  So unless you have your kernel configured to do such, 
> IPTables will not see layer 2 traffic.  So, either you need to use 
> EBTables (preferred in my opinion) or you need to configure your 
> kernel so that IPTables sees layer 2 traffic.

Thanks for the advice. I'll try with EBTables, then.

Regards.
    Javier