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author Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com>
date Mon Jan 02 07:42:47 2017 +0200 (2017-01-02)
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al@19583 1 802.1d Ethernet Bridging
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al@19583 3 If you use this package, then your Linux box will be able to act as an Ethernet
al@19583 4 bridge, which means that the different Ethernet segments it is connected to
al@19583 5 will appear as one Ethernet to the participants. Several such bridges can work
al@19583 6 together to create even larger networks of Ethernets using the IEEE 802.1
al@19583 7 spanning tree algorithm. As this is a standard, Linux bridges will cooperate
al@19583 8 properly with other third party bridge products.
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al@19583 10 In order to use the Ethernet bridge, you'll need the bridge configuration
al@19583 11 tools; see Kernel Documentation/networking/bridge.txt for location. Please read
al@19583 12 the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more information.
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al@19583 14 If you enable iptables support along with the bridge support then you turn your
al@19583 15 bridge into a bridging IP firewall. iptables will then see the IP packets being
al@19583 16 bridged, so you need to take this into account when setting up your firewall
al@19583 17 rules. Enabling arptables support when bridging will let arptables see bridged
al@19583 18 ARP traffic in the arptables FORWARD chain.