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| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Thu Apr 16 17:27:00 2020 +0100 (2020-04-16) |
| parents | 119e586fb823 |
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1 802.1d Ethernet Bridging
3 If you use this package, then your Linux box will be able to act as an Ethernet
4 bridge, which means that the different Ethernet segments it is connected to
5 will appear as one Ethernet to the participants. Several such bridges can work
6 together to create even larger networks of Ethernets using the IEEE 802.1
7 spanning tree algorithm. As this is a standard, Linux bridges will cooperate
8 properly with other third party bridge products.
10 In order to use the Ethernet bridge, you'll need the bridge configuration
11 tools; see Kernel Documentation/networking/bridge.txt for location. Please read
12 the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more information.
14 If you enable iptables support along with the bridge support then you turn your
15 bridge into a bridging IP firewall. iptables will then see the IP packets being
16 bridged, so you need to take this into account when setting up your firewall
17 rules. Enabling arptables support when bridging will let arptables see bridged
18 ARP traffic in the arptables FORWARD chain.