From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 12:46: 4 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 4245137B400 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from westhost10.westhost.net (westhost10.westhost.net [216.71.84.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F08C43E06 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:46:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from william@palfreman.com) Received: from localhost (palfreman@localhost) by westhost10.westhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5TJiuo06558; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:44:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:44:56 -0500 (CDT) From: William Palfreman X-X-Sender: palfreman@westhost10.westhost.net To: Lord Raiden Cc: Ken Ebling , Subject: Re: when will this happen? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020629110842.009eebf0@pop.netzero.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Lord Raiden wrote: > 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. :) > > At 02:49 PM 6/28/02 -0400, Ken Ebling wrote: > >will ipfw/dummynet ever support filtering by mac address? How can this happen/be useful when almost all the time the people you want to filter out are not on the same Ethernet network as you? Remember, from the point of view of your Internet facing nic, almost every IP address is the world is associated with only one MAC address, that of your managed switch. -- William Palfreman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message