wok-next annotate linux/description.linux-bridge.txt @ rev 19975
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| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Tue Oct 17 21:17:06 2017 +0200 (2017-10-17) |
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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. |
| al@19583 | 9 |
| 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. |
| al@19583 | 13 |
| 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. |