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Date:      Sun, 25 Nov 2001 18:46:40 +0100
From:      Joost Bekkers <joost@bps.jodocus.org>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Chuck Root <puga@mauibuilt.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW/VLAN
Message-ID:  <20011125184640.A3977@bps.jodocus.org>
In-Reply-To: <002001c175d5$df44dac0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:23:17AM -0800
References:  <20011125102114.A2493@bps.jodocus.org> <002001c175d5$df44dac0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:23:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >
> >The reason why 802.1q packets don't get filtered is this:
> >The bridge code only sends ip packets through the firewall, all
> >others (802.1q;ipx;arp;ipv6;....) will be passed no matter what.
> >
> 
> Ahem - ARP is an IP protocol...
> 

To you and me it is. To the network however it is not.
Ip has an ether_type of 0x0800
Arp has an ether_type of 0x0806


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greetz Joost
joost@jodocus.org

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