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From: Lars Nooden <lars.curator@gmail.com>
To: ratheesh k <ratheesh.ksz@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac filtering
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:49:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCEAE04.8010902@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l2wcfeab66d1004202055jab9b6853ue6b9e80d5da93dc0@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/21/2010 06:55 AM, ratheesh k wrote:
> Question : What exactly mac address filter mean ?  disabling router
> access or disabling internet access ?

The rule acts on what the user or that user's system has chosen at that 
particular moment to use as its chosen string to identify the network 
interface when contacting the router.

That kind of filtering is of very limited use in most activities.

/Lars

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-21  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-21  3:55 mac filtering ratheesh k
2010-04-21  5:54 ` Marek Kierdelewicz
2010-04-21  7:49 ` Lars Nooden [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-29 11:56 MAC filtering varun_saa
2005-06-29 15:58 ` Gustavo Castro Puig
2005-06-29 20:30 ` /dev/rob0
2005-06-14 20:55 MAC Filtering Claude Biron
2005-06-16 16:22 ` Charlie Brady
2005-01-05 13:25 Erwin Van de Velde
     [not found] ` <17648.213.236.112.75.1104937880.squirrel@213.236.112.75>
2005-01-05 16:12   ` Erwin Van de Velde
2005-01-05 16:22     ` Patrick Schaaf
2005-01-05 18:16     ` Bart De Schuymer
2004-01-14 23:58 Gopal Chandavarapu
2004-01-14 23:52 Gopal Chandavarapu
2004-01-21 13:55 ` Harald Welte

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