Re: Decent iptables script for bridging?

2006-05-25 Thread Benjamin Goedeke
Matthew Palmer wrote: > > You need ebtables to manage bridge filtering, if I'm not mistaken. > Only if you want to do link layer filtering. iptables works fine on a bridge. You can use pretty much any iptables script if you modify it to leave out the NAT rules and in the FORWARD chain replace -

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Benjamin Goedeke
Christian Storch wrote: On Sa, 16.10.2004, 13:39, Benjamin Goedeke wrote: ... ethernet address, namely the one of the upstream router.) So it seems arp resolution occurs even though the packets are being dropped. That's why I thought the bridge before the firewall could be a good idea. But I

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Benjamin Goedeke
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Well, I have seen ARP overflows on very big flat networks (e.g. 172.16.0.0/16) for example. Is any of yours that big? Otherwise, why would the firewall be trying to resolve so many ARP addresses, instead of forwarding the packets to its default gateway, or rejec

Re: Transparent bridge firewall with bridge-nf

2003-10-31 Thread Benjamin Goedeke
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 08:53, Norbert Preining wrote: > Our bridged/fw was running 160 day with code from there. Now I have > installed a new kernel (2.4.22) with the current ebtables code > (ebtables.sf.net) which can do even more, although I don't need it. But > ebtables is the code in 2.6 and ac

Re: Transparent bridge firewall with bridge-nf

2003-10-31 Thread Benjamin Goedeke
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 08:53, Norbert Preining wrote: > Our bridged/fw was running 160 day with code from there. Now I have > installed a new kernel (2.4.22) with the current ebtables code > (ebtables.sf.net) which can do even more, although I don't need it. But > ebtables is the code in 2.6 and ac

Transparent bridge firewall with bridge-nf

2003-10-29 Thread Benjamin Goedeke
Hello everyone, I administer a LAN that will soon be moved from private to public IP space. The LAN is inside a university network and as such in a rather hostile environment. At the moment there is a firewall with a public IP doing all the filtering and a NAT/router box behind this. Now I'm thin

Transparent bridge firewall with bridge-nf

2003-10-29 Thread Benjamin Goedeke
Hello everyone, I administer a LAN that will soon be moved from private to public IP space. The LAN is inside a university network and as such in a rather hostile environment. At the moment there is a firewall with a public IP doing all the filtering and a NAT/router box behind this. Now I'm thin