[PLUG] problem with bridging, iptables, and wireless

[Bill Barry]

On 1/17/07, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:56, Russell Senior wrote:
> > There should be a iptables-bisect
>
> Pardon, Master, for this lowly grasshopper questioning your wisdom, but
> what
> is this? Google returns nothing, nor does searching my various iptables
> howtos. Lotsa hits for git-bisect, though!
>
> And yes, running the rules one at a time is the smart thing to do, and I
> am
> doing it. I have a faint nagging memory about needing a rule for the
> broadcast addy to make this work, so we shall see.
>
>
I understood this as an allusion to the bisection algorithm. Which if
applied  in this case you would divide
the set of  iptables rules in half and test each half separately. Then when
you decide in which half the problem exists, you divide that group in half
and so on, until you narrow it down to the rule that is giving the trouble.
Thus finding the troubling rule much quicker than testing them one at a
time.
This assumes of course that the iptables rules are independent of each
other, which they mostly
are, or otherwise you just group the dependent ones together and treat them
as one rule.


Bill Barry