On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:30, Jim Ray wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong; however, me thinks firewalls in general > do not operate at the arp/mac level but rather ip and the next layer > (tcp, udp). All the arp/mac stuff takes place at a lower network layer > and should not enter the firewall picture at all. > > I've never seen any settings for arp/mac stuff in any firewall I've ever > used. Plenty of settings for ip and port stuff, though.
Actually, what I think he meant was, can a linux box ask for and receive packets for a particular mac address (presumably not its own) and then once it has them, subject them to its firewall setup. Ryan, I've never done it myself, but you might try looking for something called proxyarp. I think that will do what you want. Good luck, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | lovelace(at)wayfarer.org | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989
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