Re:

[<amanda () wineasy se>]

Why? There is very little security in a MAC address as they can be faked  
just as easily as IP addresses (in a LAN context). If you need secure 
communications with local machines then you'd be better off looking at    
VLAN, seperate cabling or VPN. Those are designed for security, MAC's are
not.   


Amanda.


On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Tiago de Castro Nogueira wrote:
> I work in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in a ISP, and in our site we have a Linux
> Server (Conectiva Linux - A Brazilian version of Red Hat Linux). We need
> to limit the packet input in this Server based on the source MAC Address
> of the packet. Unfortunately, we have no way to filter the packets based
> in the source IP Address :(. We need a MAC Address filter, where only   
> the MAC's in a Access List can access the services on this Linux server.
> Is there a Linux feature, or a software, or anyone that knows the Linux 
> Kernel and can give us some tips on how to develop that kind of filter?
>
> Thanks,
> Tiago Nogueira