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								# 802.1d Ethernet Bridging
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								config BRIDGE
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									tristate "802.1d Ethernet Bridging"
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									select LLC
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									select STP
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									---help---
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									  If you say Y here, then your Linux box will be able to act as an
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									  Ethernet bridge, which means that the different Ethernet segments it
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									  is connected to will appear as one Ethernet to the participants.
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									  Several such bridges can work together to create even larger
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									  networks of Ethernets using the IEEE 802.1 spanning tree algorithm.
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									  As this is a standard, Linux bridges will cooperate properly with
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									  other third party bridge products.
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									  In order to use the Ethernet bridge, you'll need the bridge
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									  configuration tools; see <file:Documentation/networking/bridge.txt>
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									  for location. Please read the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more
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									  information.
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									  If you enable iptables support along with the bridge support then you
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									  turn your bridge into a bridging IP firewall.
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									  iptables will then see the IP packets being bridged, so you need to
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									  take this into account when setting up your firewall rules.
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									  Enabling arptables support when bridging will let arptables see
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									  bridged ARP traffic in the arptables FORWARD chain.
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									  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
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									  will be called bridge.
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									  If unsure, say N.
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