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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
Subject: Re: Bridges
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:02:54 -0500
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On 08/20/10 05:26, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Hasn't anybody ever created a bridge with only one interface just in 
> order to be able to use ebtables on this interface ?

I'd be very surprised if someone somewhere has not done that.

I would think that it would be a very special use case scenario where 
you needed to do something in EBTables that couldn't be done in IPTables 
/ ARPTables.  But that's not to say that the need doesn't exist.  ;)



Grant. . . .