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1#
2# 802.1d Ethernet Bridging
3#
4
5config BRIDGE
6	tristate "802.1d Ethernet Bridging"
7	---help---
8	  If you say Y here, then your Linux box will be able to act as an
9	  Ethernet bridge, which means that the different Ethernet segments it
10	  is connected to will appear as one Ethernet to the participants.
11	  Several such bridges can work together to create even larger
12	  networks of Ethernets using the IEEE 802.1 spanning tree algorithm.
13	  As this is a standard, Linux bridges will cooperate properly with
14	  other third party bridge products.
15
16	  In order to use the Ethernet bridge, you'll need the bridge
17	  configuration tools; see <file:Documentation/networking/bridge.txt>
18	  for location. Please read the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more
19	  information.
20
21	  If you enable iptables support along with the bridge support then you
22	  turn your bridge into a bridging IP firewall.
23	  iptables will then see the IP packets being bridged, so you need to
24	  take this into account when setting up your firewall rules.
25	  Enabling arptables support when bridging will let arptables see
26	  bridged ARP traffic in the arptables FORWARD chain.
27
28	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
29	  will be called bridge.
30
31	  If unsure, say N.
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