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

I meant, on a linux firewall (m0n0wall is Freebsd driven) you can add
a firewall rule to filter on mac address.
On m0n0wall this isn't implemeted in the gui, but I think you can do
it directly in the config file, but you will have to search on how to
filter on mac address with ipfw (firewall uses by Freebsd/m0n0wall)

kind regards
Yves

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, GD Incorporation
<[email protected]> wrote:
> All I am saying is
>
> How many people... I mean, just regular pc users would know how to execute
> such command? Plus, no one in other than computer department in any company
> would want to use linux? Mostly just windows or mac. Changing MAC address on
> mac or windows is not that easy. But changing IP in Windows is just too
> easy.
>
> Most of my users are windows users.
>
> So that is why, for me, having mac filter in firewall rule would help so
> much.
>
> Rendra
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: YvesDM [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: m0n0wall
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Firewall Rules by MAC Address. IS it possible?
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM, GD Incorporation
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> True
>>
>> But MAC address is a lot more difficult to change than IP for most people.
>> Only a few computer people knows that.
>>
>> Rendra
>>
>
>
> On linux, with iptables you have the option --mac-source.
> Don't know if there exists something similar in ipfw.
>
> kind regards
> Yves
>
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