Raffaele If you don't want to see much arp traffic on eth1, assuming that you have a subnet 10.190.190.0/24, with 10.190.190.1 on eth1 and the rest of the hosts on eth0, you can use for example, the following filter ebtables -N f1 ebtables -P f1 DROP ebtables -t filter -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -p ARP -j f1 ebtables -t filter -A f1 -p ARP --arp-ip-src 10.190.190.0/24 --arp-ip-dst 10.190.190.1 -j ACCEPT That way you wont see much arp broadcast traffic on eth1. Hope it helps. Skept