Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:18:32 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Ben Schumacher <ben@henshaw.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netgraph based MAC authentication Message-ID: <39C089D8.167EB0E7@elischer.org> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20000913221340.00a04950@pop.henshaw.net>
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Ben Schumacher wrote:
>
> Hello-
>
> I'm working on a project where I need to be able to authenticate people by
> their MAC address against a RADIUS server. While looking into the best way
> to develop this, I starting toying around with netgraph and think it is the
> perfect framework for what I'm trying to do.
that's the kind of thing we wrote it for..
[...]
> I guess the part that's stumping
> me most right now, is where the node will pass the packets that are allowed.
back to the ethernet inteface....
in 5.x and 4.x (not sure about 3.x) the ethernet interface has
upper and lower hooks..
If you receive a packet on "lower", and it's ok, then pass it back to
'upper'
to continue on it's way.
(and visa versa)
>
julian
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