Re: [netfilter-core] [RFC] place to put bridge-netfilter specific data in the skbuff

From: Harald Welte (laforge@gnumonks.org)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 07:22:34 EST

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:15:12AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:16:56 +0200
>
> Mh. Since bridging firewall is cool, but not something everybody will
> use by default [and it adds code as well as enlarges the skb], I think it
> should be a compiletime kernel config option.
>
> This was my initial reaction, but both of us misunderstand what
> is going on I think.

Ok ;)

> If you use bridging, using netfilter on the bridged traffic "is not
> possible" without these bridge-netfilter changes.
>
> So he's saying, if we have bridging enable and netfilter, should
> bridge-netfilter be on, and right now I say yes.

Yes, this does perfectly make sense. This is the way to go. 

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