Re: 2.2.5 kernel/routing/firewalling

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:48:27 +0100 (BST)


> I thought I probably was, thats why I looked at the 'Bridging' mini-howto
> but I couldnt see whether it was possible or not to make it do
> filtering/firewalling without having to make it the default router
> as well. Its starting to look as though I cant, although one suggestion
> so far is to use rarp. This may cause me some headaches - I have

You can add firewalling to the bridge code. Nobody has done it yet but
the kernel is designed so it is possible

Alan#

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