I believe that MAC addresses aren't passed by routers,
so filtering by MAC would only work for machines on a
local subnet. I doubt if this would be very useful.
- Tom




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Subject:  Filtering my MAC address.


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An interesting query.

Currently the GnatBOX filters by IP address.  A feature request.

Could it be possible for the GnatBOX to have the ability to also take into
consideration the MAC address?

For instance, in filtering a TCP/IP packet, where I'm not interested in the
IP address, but want to stop all data traffic on TCP port 25 from
originating from MAC address 00AC45A321.

Why?  It's easy on a workstation to alter the IP address. For a MAC address
(most NICs) the network adapter usually had to be changed.

Does this make any sense?

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