MAC locking and filtering in FreeBSD

Stefan Lambrev stefan.lambrev at moneybookers.com
Wed May 13 18:57:09 UTC 2009


Hi,

apr -S (or -s) is not helping?
Have in mind that this is not a real security as it's very easy to  
change your MAC.

On May 13, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Brett Glass wrote:

> I need to find a way to do "MAC address locking" in FreeBSD -- that  
> is, to ensure that only a machine with a particular MAC address can  
> use a particular IP address. Unfortunately, it appears that rules in  
> FreeBSD's IPFW are "stuck" on one layer: rules that look at Layer 2  
> information in a packet can't look at Layer 3, and vice versa. Is  
> there a way to work around this to do MAC address locking and/or  
> other functions that involve looking at Layer 2 and Layer 3  
> simultaneously?
>
> --Brett Glass
>
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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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