On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:29:36 -0700 Howard Howell <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, guys, > What is this file: > /sys/module/ebtable_broute/uevent > > When I do "# ls -al" it shows up as: > --w-------. 1 root root 4096 Oct 10 18:22 uevent > > I have never seen a file with ONLY write permissions and root > ownership before. This would seem to be an error, or something left > over from debugging, unless it is an intrusion into my system. > > Google didn't seem to know about it either. For what it's worth, I also have that file on my system with the same permissions. I think these files are created by the ebtables program. quote""" What is ebtables? The ebtables program is a filtering tool for a Linux-based bridging firewall. It enables transparent filtering of network traffic passing through a Linux bridge. The filtering possibilities are limited to link layer filtering and some basic filtering on higher network layers. Advanced logging, MAC DNAT/SNAT and brouter facilities are also included. The ebtables tool can be combined with the other Linux filtering tools (iptables, ip6tables and arptables) to make a bridging firewall that is also capable of filtering these higher network layers. This is enabled through the bridge-netfilter architecture which is a part of the standard Linux kernel. The ebtables and arptables codebase is maintained by the netfilter developers, who were so kind to take over maintenance of the software. """ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
