Bridging firewall on a file server

christiaan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi

I am new to ebtables and I have been doing some research  to try to 
understand what is the most effective way to deploy.  Is it effective to 
deploy a bridging firewall on a file server in an intranet or LAN to 
provide an extra layer of security?  The LAN/intranet would be behind an 
IPtables firewall.

If it is possible what would be the most effective method of utilising 
ebtables. Should the topology be:

IPtables router  »   ebtables file server   »   LAN/Intranet

or


IPtables router  » LAN/Intranet  »   ebtables file server

Thanks in advance

Chris


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