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1 | # | ||
2 | # 802.1d Ethernet Bridging | ||
3 | # | ||
4 | |||
5 | config BRIDGE | ||
6 | tristate "802.1d Ethernet Bridging" | ||
7 | ---help--- | ||
8 | If you say Y here, then your Linux box will be able to act as an | ||
9 | Ethernet bridge, which means that the different Ethernet segments it | ||
10 | is connected to will appear as one Ethernet to the participants. | ||
11 | Several such bridges can work together to create even larger | ||
12 | networks of Ethernets using the IEEE 802.1 spanning tree algorithm. | ||
13 | As this is a standard, Linux bridges will cooperate properly with | ||
14 | other third party bridge products. | ||
15 | |||
16 | In order to use the Ethernet bridge, you'll need the bridge | ||
17 | configuration tools; see <file:Documentation/networking/bridge.txt> | ||
18 | for location. Please read the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more | ||
19 | information. | ||
20 | |||
21 | If you enable iptables support along with the bridge support then you | ||
22 | turn your bridge into a bridging IP firewall. | ||
23 | iptables will then see the IP packets being bridged, so you need to | ||
24 | take this into account when setting up your firewall rules. | ||
25 | Enabling arptables support when bridging will let arptables see | ||
26 | bridged ARP traffic in the arptables FORWARD chain. | ||
27 | |||
28 | To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module | ||
29 | will be called bridge. | ||
30 | |||
31 | If unsure, say N. | ||