How to disable MAC learning in a Linux bridge

Posted by xmodulo on Apr 29, 2016 1:30 PM EDT
Xmodulo; By Dan Nanni
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An Ethernet bridge is a network component which interconnects multiple Ethernet networks by forwarding packets from one network to another. Linux has a software implementation of the Ethernet bridge (called "Linux bridge") incorporated into the kernel since 2.6. A Linux bridge is often used to set up a transparent proxy/firewall, or to work as a virtual switch which interconnects multiple virtual machines and containers created on a host.

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