Re: Silly advise in bridge Configure help

["David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>]

   From: "Randy.Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@verizon.net>
   Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 20:20:58 -0800
   
   Sounds good, so here's the patch to 2.5.46 Kconfig to do that
   if you want it.

I had a similar patch in my queue from Lennert Buytenhek (written by
Bart De Schuyer) which I'm about to send to Linus.

[BRIDGE] update help docs

--- linux-2.5.45/net/Kconfig	Thu Oct 31 01:41:43 2002
+++ linux-2.5.45-bezig/net/Kconfig	Sat Nov  2 12:25:21 2002
@@ -382,10 +382,10 @@
 	  for location. Please read the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more
 	  information.
 
-	  Note that if your box acts as a bridge, it probably contains several
-	  Ethernet devices, but the kernel is not able to recognize more than
-	  one at boot time without help; for details read the Ethernet-HOWTO,
-	  available from in <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
+	  If you enable iptables support along with the bridge support then you
+	  turn your bridge into a bridging firewall.
+	  iptables will then see the IP packets being bridged, so you need to
+	  take this into account when setting up your firewall rules.
 
 	  If you want to compile this code as a module ( = code which can be
 	  inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),