RE: Firewall Rules by MAC Address. IS it possible?

GD Incorporation <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Organization GD Systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oooh.. Good idea... I never thought of that.

Thanks
Rendra 

-----Original Message-----
From: Damir Simpovic [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:27 PM
To: GD Incorporation
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Firewall Rules by MAC Address. IS it possible?


> Can we filter user by m0n0wall using his MAC Address? Because the IP 
> address is dynamic. I need to give access to one single user all 
> internet access except port 80. In other words we want to prevent user 
> from using browser to browse internet, but we wouls like to give him 
> access to remote desktop and yahoo messenger etc.

You   can   configure  the  DHCP server to give the same IP address to
that particular MAC address, then prevent that IP address from going out on
port 80.

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