how to allow by MAC

[Julian H. Stacey]

"Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
> Bill Yuan wrote:
> > come on , someone help please,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan <bycn82 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > how to allow by MAC in ipfw
> > >
> > > currently i set the rule like below
> > >
> > > 1  allow ip from any to any MAC any to <MAC Address 1>
> > > 1  allow ip from any to any MAC <MAC Address 1> any
> > > 2 deny all from any to any
> > >
> > > i want to only allow the mac address to go through the freebsd firewall,
> > >
> > > but I found it is not working on my freebsd but it works on pfsense!
> > >
> > > so maybe that means the environment is not the same ? and how to setup the
> > > ipfw properly to support this ?
> 
> Maybe others ignored it for the same reason I did: blocking by MAC
> number seems weird & of no interest, I block & pass by IP net number.

as shown by ifconfig
	MAC : 6 byte 
	IP : 4 byte (IPV4) 

Cheers,
Julian
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