ebtables?
What is the point of ebtables? Why would I need it?
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to filter frames in the protocol layer.
for example, for filtering IPX packets in an IP network.
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What is the point of ebtables? Why would I need it?
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to filter frames in the protocol layer.
for example, for filtering IPX packets in an IP network.
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What is the point of ebtables? Why would I need it?
you may also want a firewall that has no ip address yet filters ip packets through iptables ;-)
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What is the point of ebtables?
See to http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/
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Why would I need it?
Who know why?... ;)
To filter ethernet frames (on link Layer), but not only an ip packets (on Network Layer) on Your Linux-powered bridge (because bridge is [mostly] Layer 2 (Linkk Layer) device)
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Does it offer any features over iptables for just IP users?
See the iptables/ebtables interaction:
http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/br_fw_ia.html
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Does that mean (and I think it does) that without ebtables IPX traffic
would pass a bridge, such as the one this list is for, uninhibited?
http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#what
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