Re: How to make a computer invisible

["Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães" <leolistas@solutti.com.br>]

    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 ----- 
From: "Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães" <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 Address
> for doing some filtering in some tables, but it CANT be used for filtering
> those 'layer 2' packets. That means iptables CANNOT modify ARP/RARP
> behavior.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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?