Usually remote MAC address. It's used for restricting users on a subnet. I have an ugly hack that does this at present and am looking forward to the MAC address support. Yes, I know users can conceivably change their MAC addresses but most would never know how. They change their IP addresses to get around security restrictions all the time.
Nate > Ken Ebling wrote: > > > > Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > > Encoding: quoted-printable > > | I know this isn't performed at the ip level, but I think a useful = > | addition to ipfw would be to allow filtering by mac addresses. I think = > | a lot of people would find it useful, and a lot of linux users I try and = > | ``convert'' to FreeBSD say they require this feature too. > > Local or remote MAC addresses? > > The remote MAC address is always going to be a peer on the local > wire; usually, this is your router. > > The local MAC address is a 1:N correspondance with IP addresses, > so you can always do whatever you were planning on doing there > using the local IP addresses that are associated with the MAC > in question. > > What is it you are trying to do that is apparently not very > obvious? > > -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
