| # 802.1d Ethernet Bridging |
| tristate "802.1d Ethernet Bridging" |
| If you say Y here, then your Linux box will be able to act as an |
| Ethernet bridge, which means that the different Ethernet segments it |
| is connected to will appear as one Ethernet to the participants. |
| Several such bridges can work together to create even larger |
| networks of Ethernets using the IEEE 802.1 spanning tree algorithm. |
| As this is a standard, Linux bridges will cooperate properly with |
| other third party bridge products. |
| In order to use the Ethernet bridge, you'll need the bridge |
| configuration tools; see <file:Documentation/networking/bridge.txt> |
| for location. Please read the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more |
| If you enable iptables support along with the bridge support then you |
| turn your bridge into a bridging IP firewall. |
| iptables will then see the IP packets being bridged, so you need to |
| take this into account when setting up your firewall rules. |
| Enabling arptables support when bridging will let arptables see |
| bridged ARP traffic in the arptables FORWARD chain. |
| To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module |