Re: ethfilter - layer 2/3 ethernet packet filter

Hi,

Dave Pegler schrieb:
> I have just release ethfilter version 1.0.0 on sourceforge:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ethfilter
> 
> ethfilter is a ethernet layer packet filter which, amongst other things,
> permits multiple 802.1D bridges to operate on a single Linux machine. It
> does this by creating multiple virutal network devices (layered on top
> of a single physical ethernet interface) and configuring each to
> accept/receive Ethernet frames that match different layer 2 and/or layer
> 3 QoS parameters (e.g. DiffServ/IP Precedence and/or 802.1Q and/or 802.3
> MAC address).

How is this different from ebtables+iptables on traditional linux bridges?

> This project is designed to run on Linux and is a patch to kernel
> version 2.4.31.

And why did you develop this on an obsolete kernel tree?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
-- 
http://www.hailfinger.org/


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