Jacky Lam a écrit : > I want to share a network service by two computers but I don't have > any extra router or switch, but one computer has 2 ethernet cards and > running Linux. But that computer is old and slow. So I want to know if > I can set up that computer as a ethernet level switch/bridge. What kind of network service ? Is that service running on the old computer ? You can set up a computer as an ethernet bridge, but that old computer may not be fast enough to handle gigabit traffic. > That means I am done right (except the two rules at the beginning) to > setup a ethernet switch? I don't need to setup any rules by iptables > or ebtables? You need iptables and ebtables rules for IP and ethernet packet filtering and mangling. You don't need them if the box does only plain routing or bridging. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
