[Bridge] ioctl function definition?

Stephen Hemminger shemminger at osdl.org
Sun Sep 11 22:25:40 PDT 2005


Ahsan, Ahmad wrote:

> hi!
>  
> i have read the bridge source code, in order to modify the bridge so 
> that it acts as a bridge + firewall in one. in this way, the firewall 
> would be faster as data does not have to go up to the application 
> layer, but only need to go up to the data link layer (where the bridge 
> works).
>  

That is what ebtables already does!



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