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| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Wed Aug 03 17:56:22 2022 +0100 (2022-08-03) |
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1 The ebtables program is a filtering tool for a Linux-based bridging firewall.
2 It enables transparent filtering of network traffic passing through a
3 Linux bridge.
4 The filtering possibilities are limited to link layer filtering and some
5 basic filtering on higher network layers. Advanced logging, MAC DNAT/SNAT
6 and brouter facilities are also included.
8 The ebtables tool can be combined with the other Linux filtering tools
9 (iptables, ip6tables and arptables) to make a bridging firewall that is also
10 capable of filtering these higher network layers. This is enabled through
11 the bridge-netfilter architecture which is a part of the standard Linux kernel.
13 The ebtables and arptables codebase is maintained by the netfilter developers,
14 who were so kind to take over maintenance of the software.