Re: 2.2.5 kernel/routing/firewalling

T. S. Horsnell (tsh@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:45:50 +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
>

I had a long look at the kernel (./net) code to see if I could determine
whether the packet filtering routines were free-standing and whether
they could be called from the bridge code, but I'm a total kernel newbie
and so far haven't managed to deduce the way the various code modules
interact. I wouldn't exactly describe myself as a network guru either,
but I'm happy to have a crack at this if there is someone out there
prepared to hold my hand...

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