Re: block sites (preferably by MAC)

Chris Bell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ipcop.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Saturday 01 Aug 2015 10:03:22 Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
> -------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 31/7/15, Joe Acquisto-j4 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: [IPCop-user] block sites (preferably by MAC)
>  To: "IpCop List" <[email protected]>, "Spyros Tsiolis"
> <stsiol-/[email protected]> Date: Friday, 31 July, 2015, 1:35
> 
>  If you mean the MAC of
>  the site you are trying to block, I'd say you stand
>  ZERO
>  chance of doing that with ANY
>  product.
> 
>  The MAC does not
>  survive the first "hop" between routers, it gets
>  replaced by the
>  MAC of the device that hands
>  it off, so to speak.
>  -------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Naturally for what you describe. The MAC address gets lost
> at the first packet trasversal.
> 
> But that is not what I am trying to say.
> I would like to block a website on the GREEN network for selected
> nodes, e.g. :
> 
> node xx-yy-zz-yy-zz can access that website (on the internal network)
> 
> However, node zz-yy-xx-yy-zz cannot access it because its MAC address
> is registered on IpCop as a MAC address that is not allowed to access
> that same website.
> 
> Hope I made things clearer now.
> 
> regards,
> 
> spyros
> 
> 
If you are trying to restrict access from a local box defined by its MAC 
address and the local network, perhaps using DHCP, then "Firewall Rules" 
appear to allow configuration, see the selection list top of the page. I am 
using the latest version of IPCop but have never tried to do this.


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