Re: Re: [Ebtables-user] bridge/ebtables interaction...

Jon Anderson <janderson-PLjm5N+tXOMV+D8aMU/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:

>That implies a bad bridge topology (not tree), so that can't be legal.
>There can be only one (active) path to another node or the possiblities
>of loops exist and bridging won't work!
>  
>
Bad bridge topology...or a hostile user. A user with physical access and
the ability to change his/her mac address can bring down a network
simply by snagging a MAC and sending packets through the bridge.

jon




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