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     1.4 +802.1d Ethernet Bridging
     1.5 +
     1.6 +If you use this package, then your Linux box will be able to act as an Ethernet
     1.7 +bridge, which means that the different Ethernet segments it is connected to
     1.8 +will appear as one Ethernet to the participants. Several such bridges can work
     1.9 +together to create even larger networks of Ethernets using the IEEE 802.1
    1.10 +spanning tree algorithm. As this is a standard, Linux bridges will cooperate
    1.11 +properly with other third party bridge products.
    1.12 +
    1.13 +In order to use the Ethernet bridge, you'll need the bridge configuration
    1.14 +tools; see Kernel Documentation/networking/bridge.txt for location. Please read
    1.15 +the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more information.
    1.16 +
    1.17 +If you enable iptables support along with the bridge support then you turn your
    1.18 +bridge into a bridging IP firewall. iptables will then see the IP packets being
    1.19 +bridged, so you need to take this into account when setting up your firewall
    1.20 +rules. Enabling arptables support when bridging will let arptables see bridged
    1.21 +ARP traffic in the arptables FORWARD chain.