Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:43:32 +0300 (EEST) | From | Petru Paler <> | Subject | Re: bridging and IP-filtering |
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Chris Osicki wrote:
> Hi, > > I applied the kernel patches from http://ac2i.tzo.com/bridge_filter/ > to 2.2.10 kernel source to enable IP filtering when bridging. > It works very well with ACCEPT and DENY. In an attempt to make it > also work with REJECT (send back a dest unreachable ICMP message)
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> Would any of you experts like to comment? Is it possible to achieve > what I'm trying?
I don't think so. Since you do bridging you are not a router and you cannot send back a reject (the sending host expects to talk to someone on the same network).
-Petru
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