From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 28 23: 8:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1186937B400 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60D843E06 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:08:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0094.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.94] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17OBPH-0003yN-00; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:08:27 -0700 Message-ID: <3D1D4EB3.9410011@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:07:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Ebling Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw/dummynet suggestion References: <000801c21f1c$029cefe0$0201a8c0@Ken> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Ebling wrote: > > Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: quoted-printable | I know this isn't performed at the ip level, but I think a useful = | addition to ipfw would be to allow filtering by mac addresses. I think = | a lot of people would find it useful, and a lot of linux users I try and = | ``convert'' to FreeBSD say they require this feature too. Local or remote MAC addresses? The remote MAC address is always going to be a peer on the local wire; usually, this is your router. The local MAC address is a 1:N correspondance with IP addresses, so you can always do whatever you were planning on doing there using the local IP addresses that are associated with the MAC in question. What is it you are trying to do that is apparently not very obvious? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message