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