Actully, I know I need a bridge, I'm just not sure how to make thw kernel do it. See, this is my problem. At work, we have a large LAN, with many macitosh & windows pc's. Many of the computers, we do not have access to, such as our servers & salesmans notebooks. Yet they need to be secure, but I can't configure them. Bad situation, but thats the way it is. I was going to wait till I learned this, & take my time. Some jerk has hacked our NT rips twice this week, dropping trojans, virus's etc. Really a mess, so now I'm working against time. So I figure a bridge w/iptables is the answer to my problems. I can place my little p1-200mhz in & were golden. I just need to know exactly how to get my suse 8.1install kernel to bridge. I can set the iprables up from there. Thanks, -Trey
What do you want to do? The bridge-nf-patch is for building a transparent (non-routing) firewall, which you probably won't need. It is more common to configure a Linux box as router (the "default gateway" for your work LAN's computers), running iptables on it. There are quite a few firewall scripts, some are provided by SuSE, but I'm not familiar with these.
It sounds like you don't know yet what you really need,