Re: DHCP and iptables

[Mathias Kub]

Thank you very much for that quick reply.

Yours Mathias Kub

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12.10.2009 Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

|   On Monday 12 October 2009, lkml@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
|   > The last few days I have been wondering about the fact, that I get an
|   > IP address via
|   > DHCP if all chains at iptables are set to drop and no accept rules set.
|   >
|   > Does this happen on purpose?
|
|   DHCP is an ethernet protocol, not an IP protocol, so you have to use
|   ebtables instead of iptables to filter it.
|
|   	Arnd <><
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