diff --git a/network/ebtables/doinst.sh b/network/ebtables/doinst.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..092a869b6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/network/ebtables/doinst.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+config() {
+  NEW="$1"
+  OLD="$(dirname $NEW)/$(basename $NEW .new)"
+  # If there's no config file by that name, mv it over:
+  if [ ! -r $OLD ]; then
+    mv $NEW $OLD
+  elif [ "$(cat $OLD | md5sum)" = "$(cat $NEW | md5sum)" ]; then
+    # toss the redundant copy
+    rm $NEW
+  fi
+  # Otherwise, we leave the .new copy for the admin to consider...
+}
+
+config etc/ethertypes.new
+
diff --git a/network/ebtables/ebtables.SlackBuild b/network/ebtables/ebtables.SlackBuild
index 39fa5ede9f..758a3521a5 100644
--- a/network/ebtables/ebtables.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/ebtables/ebtables.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 PRGNAM=ebtables
 VERSION=${VERSION:-2.0.10}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-3}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | gr
 find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
 for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
+mv $PKG/etc/ethertypes $PKG/etc/ethertypes.new
+
 # Remove Red Hat junk
 rm -rf $PKG/etc/rc.d $PKG/etc/sysconfig
 
@@ -100,6 +102,7 @@ cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+cat $CWD/doinst.sh  > $PKG/install/doinst.sh
 
 cd $PKG
 /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}