Re: Access Control by client MAC address?

1998-05-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Richard Potter wrote: Is there anyway available to restrict access to services, based on the clients MAC address, rather than their ip? No, because the MAC address isn't part of TCP/IP. All that is required of a TCP/IP connection is that it have an IP number and that's as

Access Control by client MAC address?

1998-05-01 Thread Richard Potter
Is there anyway available to restrict access to services, based on the clients MAC address, rather than their ip? I have clients coming in through the internet, with cable modems, whose ip's change every so often. I am now restricting access by ip, but this has to reworked when their ip