Re: iptables with a linux bridge

[Philipp Schulte <pschulte@uni-duisburg.de>]

François Bayart wrote: 

> I've installed a linux bridge with 2.4.14 kernel and the bridge-utils packages

I just finished testing a setup pretty similar to yours. It's a
machine with kernel 2.4.14, patch bridge-nf-0.0.3 and
bridge-utils-0.9.3.
So far it works great and I am really satisfied.

I basically do 

        brctl addbr br0
        brctl addif br0 eth1
        brctl addif br0 eth2
        ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
        ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0
        ifconfig br0 up

and then add my ruleset. I did not assign br0 an IP because the
machine has a third interface for administration and so there is no
need for it.
Phil