Transparent filtering and ipfilter

[horio shoichi]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:45:54 +0100
"robinux at libero.it" <robinux at libero.it> wrote:
> Date: 16 dec 2003
> 
> I'm  interested in configuring Filtering Bridges (as described in the Alex
> Dupre howto) using 4.9-RELEASE.
> 
> I'd like to know:
> 
>  - Filtering bridges is supported with ipfilter?
>  - ipfilter is more portable, but what are its limits with bridges?
>  - What about adv/disav of ipfilter vs ipfw?
> 
> thanks in advance
> Roberto
> 
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There is a post on ipfilter list by Olivier Nicole <on at cs.ait.ac.th>
on Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:31:16 +0700 (ICT).

The guts of his post are:

net.link.ether.bridge_cfg: fxp0,fxp1
net.link.ether.bridge: 1
net.link.ether.bridge_ipf: 1

(note the last line).



horio shoichi