Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-10 at 13:59 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>>  
>>> I wonder if that's "the right thing" to do though.  I'd think letting
>>> people define what traffic they don't want to log using the existing
>>> macros even if they want, would not be better.
>> I'll await your patch then that allows using macros and actions in the 
>> Netfilter
>> mangle table. You keep ignoring the fact that MAC filtration can occur in 
>> that
>> table too.
> 
> Probably because that's not my particular itch.  :-)  I'm not trying to
> be difficult though, just trying to offer POV.  Perhaps more
> functionality can be offered to those willing to do the MAC
> authentication in the filter table? 

It's not a question of willingness -- where the output interface is a bridge,
maclist filtering in the filter table just *doesn't work*.

> I think there are other such tradeoffs in shorewall isn't there?

I really try not to punish people for decisions where they have no choice (as in
this case).

I've added a MACLIST_LOG_BROADCASTS option to shorewall.conf in the 3.3 thread.
If I come up with something more elegant, I'll let you know.

-Tom
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