[Ilugc] Re: A short networking tutorial
- From: mohan.tux@xxxxxxxxx (Mohan Sundaram)
- Date: Sun Oct 28 09:44:17 2007
Mohan Sundaram wrote:
ebtables arrived pretty recently (2003) till when that was relevant. I
do agree that it has lost most of its relevance in recent times and
avoiding this makes for clean segregated networks.
Mohan
ebtables was important for use edge boxes where we used proxies behind
firewalls and NAT helpers did not exist for many protocols. Still corner
cases. Many of these were also addressed by tunneling as most of these
interactions were between trusted sites.
Mohan
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