On 1/12/11 6:53 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 06:40 -0800, Tom Eastep wrote: 
> 
> Given that you can use mac addresses in the rules file, what kind of
> scenario does is the maclist feature better suited than rules?
> 

Now that we have actions and MAC matching in rules within them, I don't
believe that there is any case where the maclist feature is better
suited. It remains for compatibility with earlier releases and for those
who find defining an action to be too steep a hill.

You can clearly define an 'Accept' action that does filtering by MAC and
then ACCEPTs the connection. You can even define a similar action that
only does the mac filtering and use it as the default action for ACCEPT
policies.

-Tom
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