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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bridging netfilter and forwarding
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:15:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E286CB4.9060202@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110721090525.09d8e10d@s6510.ftrdhcpuser.net>

On 07/21/11 11:05, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> There is a recurring theme of people that want to forward link
> local multicast and other packets. There is a patch that adds a mask
> value, but I would prefer a more general solution using netfilter/ebtables.
>
> Is there some way to use actions to do this better?
> Or change the existing NF_HOOK somehow do this.

Can you not do this with a bridging router (a.k.a. brouter)?



Grant. . . .

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-21 16:05 Bridging netfilter and forwarding Stephen Hemminger
2011-07-21 18:15 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2011-07-21 19:53   ` Stephen Hemminger

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