[LARTC] Disable netfilter for bridged traffic

Radu Oprisan radu at securesystems.ro
Thu Feb 1 00:22:43 CET 2007


Luciano Ruete wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:30, Radu Oprisan wrote:
>> senthil wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> Can anybody suggests how can I disable netfilter for bridged traffic in
>>> linux-2.4.27 kernel ?
>> If i understand the question, then you just need to ignore the
>> interfaces for the bridge.
> 
> this is not necesary cause bridged traffic is "layer 2" traffic, and there is 
> not a chance that netfiter(layer 3) saw it.
> 
> There is ebtables and iptables "physdev" in 2.6, to filter bridged traffic.

I'm sorry. I missed the part about 2.4.27 in the first message.


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