Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 3 May 2004 10:19:20 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Rob <stopspam@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw and MAC-keyword: "unknown arg"; but it is in man page!
Message-ID:  <20040503091920.GA7426@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4096080E.50803@users.sourceforge.net>
References:  <4096080E.50803@users.sourceforge.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:51:26PM +0900, Rob wrote:

> With my ipfw firewall, I try to use the MAC keyword, as explained
> in the ipfw man page:

> But to no avail:
>=20
> # ipfw add 900 allow udp from any to any MAC 00:a0:b0:0e:3a:95 any
> ipfw: unknown argument ``MAC''
> #
>=20
> Is this a bug, or what?

That's definitely a 'what'.  MAC header filtering is an IPFW2 feature
and that has to be enabled specially on 4-STABLE.  Read the sections
in ipfw(8) called "IPFW2 ENHANCEMENTS" and then follow the
instructions in the section "USING IPFW2 IN FreeBSD-STABLE"

	Cheers,

	Matthew

--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
                                                      Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey         Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614                                  Bucks., SL7 1TH UK

--NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFAlg6YdtESqEQa7a0RAoLdAJ9GzVrBOHZI3vWGlLcmX/TEWhgHagCggLP4
/7PW6HPMZaUKwta3R3ibJyE=
=rZQg
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040503091920.GA7426>