From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 13:14:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B594637B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.lucky.net (news.lucky.net [193.193.193.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5BA43E42 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:14:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perl@ukrpost.net) Received: (from mail@localhost) by news.lucky.net (8.Who.Cares/8.Who.Cares) id XFP21055 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:14:34 +0300 (envelope-from perl@ukrpost.net) From: "Andrew Novikov" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: when will this happen? Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 23:21:32 +0300 Organization: Unknown Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "Andrew Novikov" X-Trace: news.lucky.net 1025382094 5509 193.193.195.243 (29 Jun 2002 20:21:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.lucky.net X-Sender: nik-k@carrier.kiev.ua X-Priority: 3 X-Comment-To: William Palfreman X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 FL-Build: Fidolook Express 2001 UIExt. BuildID: 3BC00FAD (7/10/2001 11:17:49). X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, William. You wrote to Lord Raiden on Sat, 29 Jun 2002 19:47:19 +0000 (UTC): >> Actually, I like that Idea. I'm definitely interested too >> when this will happen. Plus, I'd be curious if IPFW also supported >> filtering my >> Mac Address. If not, it should be something to consider. IT would >> help keep out pesky script kiddies who keep the same modem or nic >> card, but constantly change IP's. :) WP> How can this happen/be useful when almost all the time the people WP> you want to filter out are not on the same Ethernet network as you? WP> Remember, from the point of view of your Internet facing nic, almost WP> every IP address is the world is associated with only one MAC WP> address, that of your managed switch. But what if you have to limit users IN your network to some bandwidth or prohibit some users use NAT (let them use proxy!) It's a problem when you have dhcp. You can use arp -S to force machine with given have . Even if another user will try to configure his machine to have that he won't be able to use it. With best regards, Andy Novikov. E-mail: perl@ukrpost.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message