Re: Questions about ebtables

Bart De Schuymer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Op di, 02-08-2005 te 20:48 -0500, schreef Eduardo Bejar:
> Hi,
>  
> I have some questions about ebtables:
>  
> - Does ebtables only works in bridge-firewalls or can it also work in a
> linux box serving as gateway for a LAN? 
> - Can I filter IPX and Netbeui with ebtables on this network layout?
>  
> I need to filter Windows file sharing between networks. Currently I have
> some iptables rules to drop TCP/UDP packets for ports related to Netbeui but
> I read somewhere that Windows uses Netbeui/IPX when IP is not available. Any
> ideas regarding this?

Perhaps the example "Filtering with ebtables on interfaces not enslaved
to a bridge" at http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/examples.html#easy will
be of help.

cheers,
Bart




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