Bridge rule info?

Ishwar Rattan ishwar at pali.cps.cmich.edu
Sat Jan 14 23:47:09 CET 2006


I realize that I am a little confused about bridging.
Before the bridge, I was running firewall on interface eth0
After the bridge (br0) is up, eth0 and tun0 are bridged to it
- does it mean that br0 is now the interface to run firewall on?

-ishwar

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Ishwar Rattan wrote:

>
> I have a debian based Linux box connected to dept LAN
> with iptables running. I am interested in eth0 and tun0
> bridge (br0) on this box. If I remove the firewall first and
> then set up the bridge, it works as promised. If the firewall
> is brought up the bridge stops. So, I am looking for a
> way for bridge and firewall to work together.
>
> Any ideas?
> -ishwar
>
>



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