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MAC Address Filtering

Is it possible with ASL V5 to block a given MAC address so that it has no access to the Internet, or the VPN tunnel?

I found in the documentation how to do it on a wireless interface, but I want to set it up on the wired ethernet.

There is only 6 machines that should be allowed to connect through this particular ASL box. I would like to set up a positive filter to only allow these 6 MAC addresses.

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0 JimmyM over 21 years ago

You can't do it with iptables (ASL). You'd need ebtables.
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0 ineappleP over 21 years ago in reply to JimmyM

Thanks Jim, for the quick response.

Too bad it wasn't the response I was hoping for. Can you think of any other way to accomplish this?

I was thinking that I could just add a DHCP reservation for the MAC that gives it a bogus IP, but obviously a clever user could work around that very easily.

Fortuneatly most of our users aren't that clever.
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0 William Warren over 21 years ago in reply to ineappleP

give it an ip then add a block all rule in the packet filter for that ip address..[[:)]] But keep in mind softwre can be installed to spoof the MAC addess of their choosing..[[:)]]
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0 ineappleP over 21 years ago in reply to William Warren

Great idea.

That's more what I was looking for. I'll give it a try today.
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0 martindw over 21 years ago in reply to ineappleP

This will be particularly useful if your clients are W2K or XP and don't have admin rights on their computers. Then they can't change the IP settings you give them. . .on 9x all bets are off if they learn anything about TCP/IP configuration.
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0 bce over 21 years ago in reply to martindw

yes, and i think its easier for them to change the ip than the mac.
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