Myron Interesting idea. More and more cards though, can have their MAC address software configured. On the other hand, it would be a lot harder to guess the MAC addresses on someone's network than the IP addressing scheme. The other good thing about the MAC address is that it is much less likely that a piece of software will transmit the MAC address than the IP address. It would certainly appear to be more secure than using onlythe IP address, however I would imagine it would mean a fairly radical overhaul of the way GNAT Box works.
Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: Myron Szymanskyj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 08 November 2001 13:33 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Filtering my MAC address. > > --------------------- Attention ----------------------------- > A digest version of this list is now available. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with the following message: > subscribe gb-users-digest your_email_address > Then unsubscribe from this list. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > GNAT Box User Forum http://www.gnatbox.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi > Send postings to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Access the list archives at: http://www.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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? > > ---------------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe gb-users your_email_address > in the body of the message
