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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Leonardo_Rodrigues_Magalh=E3es?= <leolistas@solutti.com.br>
Subject: Re: How to make a computer invisible
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:49:31 -0300
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    Some new informations .....

    iptables really cannot do that. But you should take a look at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebtables/

    go to Files link and you'll see 'arptables' ..... guess what it does =
???
:)

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Leonardo Rodrigues Magalh=E3es" <leolistas@solutti.com.br>
To: "Thomas Preissler" <tomjohn@gmx.de>; "netfilter-user Mailinglist"
<netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: How to make a computer invisible


>     AFAIK, iptables can use some 'layer 2' information such as MAC Addr=
ess
> for doing some filtering in some tables, but it CANT be used for filter=
ing
> those 'layer 2' packets. That means iptables CANNOT modify ARP/RARP
> behavior.
>
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Thomas Preissler" <tomjohn@gmx.de>
> To: "netfilter-user Mailinglist" <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 3:12 PM
> Subject: How to make a computer invisible
>
> > how do I really make a computer totally invisibly as it would be
> > when it does not exist?
> >
> > It is clear, that the simplest solution is to DROP all incoming
> > packets, but what's about (R)ARP packets? Can they be blocked anyway?