YC Wang wrote:
> Hello,everyone,
> 
> I have a question:
> Is it possible to filter packets  _flowing through_ the bridge,
> whether by using ipfilters or by some other means, in the current
> bridge implementation? And if not, is this under development or is
> there such plans in the near future?

Not currently possible, but highly desired as a feature.  The limiting
factor right now is the way in which IP Filter hooks into the stack:
it's connected inside of IP itself, which means that it generally
doesn't see packets that bridging has forwarded.

There is (or was?) a project called "L2 Filtering" that would be able to
provide the right hooks to allow the IP Filter code to be applied to
bridged packets.  I don't know the state of that project, though,
because it's been quite some time since I last looked into it.

-- 
James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <[email protected]>
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