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