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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:42:40 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.net>, Bill Fink <bill@billfink.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <19990702104239.X69050@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpiu83xv4b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 11:24:04AM %2B0200
References:  <NDBBKGIEOJDOPHINDIKGOEHKCAAA.bill@billfink.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990701180015.95386A-100000@narcissus.net> <19990702095858.V69050@pavilion.net> <xzpiu83xv4b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 11:24:04AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> writes:
> > As an associated thing can anyone think of an easy way of ignoring traffic
> > coming from a particular MAC address on the network?  I've got a user who
> > keeps changing their IP address to get arround the fact that I've restricted
> > traffic to that address.
> 
> So terminate him.

Ah, if only life were that simple ;)  There are laws against that kind of
thing :o).

He's on a local area network that I'm part of.  I provide routed access to
the internet, but he's allowed access to the network to connect to other
users (this is at home, not at work - he rent's a room from me.)  The problem
is that he's running Internet Explorer 5 in stupid "go on line for no reason
at all" mode and until he's either un-installed it, or fixed the problem
I've told him that I'm shutting down his internet access.  That said he's
been a naughty boy and changed his IP address a couple of times to other
people's.  He thinks that I don't know, but of course I've got changing
ARP addresses.  What I'd like to do now is ignore his MAC address on the 
server instead to get around this.  (I could disconnect him from the network
but that's harder to police.)

Joe
-- 
Josef Karthauser	FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today?
Technical Manager	Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org)
Pavilion Internet plc.  [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk]


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