Bug#212914: ITP: arptables -- ARP table administration
merge 206005 212914
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:22:51PM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
>
> > * Package name : arptables
> > Version : 0.0.2
> > Upstream Author : Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
> > * URL : http://ebtables.sourceforge.net
>
> > Arptables is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of
> > ARP rules in the Linux kernel. It is analogous to iptables,
> > but operates at the ARP layer rather than the IP layer.
>
> This seems to be packaged already:
>
> Package: ebtables
> Priority: optional
> Section: net
> Installed-Size: 128
> Maintainer: David Kimdon <dwhedon@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 2.0.3-1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
> Filename: pool/main/e/ebtables/ebtables_2.0.3-1_i386.deb
> Size: 36446
> MD5sum: 0720c997ec1514f383a67aa7ecb69059
> Description: Ethernet bridge frame table administration
> Ebtables is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of
> Ethernet frame rules in the Linux kernel. It is analogous to iptables,
> but operates at the MAC layer rather than the IP layer.
As i'm currently adopting ebtables, i've read your bug report already, and
that was mainly the reason for this ITP :-). In fact, arptables and
ebtables are two totally different beasts.
ebtables: this one works on Ethernet interfaces only and needs the bridge
code in Linux. It can as well filter ARP packets, but only on
Ethernet interfaces part of a bridge group.
arptables: this one works on all multi access interfaces (i.e. also on
Token Ring, FDDI), even where bridging doesn't work in Linux.
It can both filter and mangle ARP packets.
Both programs are even written by the same developer and are both
available in the download section at http://ebtables.sourceforge.net.
--jochen
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