Information about the package, ebtables, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ebtables package is designed for, Ethernet Bridge frame table administration tool.
Package Name:
ebtables
Summary:
Ethernet Bridge frame table administration tool
Description:
Ethernet bridge tables is a firewalling tool to transparently filter network traffic passing a bridge. The filtering possibilities are limited to link layer filtering and some basic filtering on higher network layers. This tool is the userspace control for the bridge and ebtables kernel components. The ebtables tool can be used together with the other Linux filtering tools, like iptables. There are no known incompatibility issues.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.9
Release:
6.el6
Size:
95 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the ebtables package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ebtables
This command will install ebtables on the server.
yum remove ebtables
This command will un-install ebtables on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ebtables, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ebtables
This command will un-install ebtables on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ebtables when using the -y flag.
yum update ebtables
This command will update ebtables to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ebtables, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ebtables
This command will update ebtables to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ebtables when using the -y flag.
yum info ebtables
This command will show you core information about the ebtables package.
yum deplist ebtables
This command will show you the dependencies for ebtables. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update ebtables
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ebtables. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.