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From: Joel Newkirk <netfilter@newkirk.us>
Subject: Re: Lot of MAC Address
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:07:14 -0500
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To: hare ram <hareram@sol.net.in>, netfilter <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 10:40 am, hare ram wrote:
> Hi  all
>
> In my LAN, i have lot of MAC address,  ( pc's)
> how do i make a rule for 100 MAC address (PC) to allow
> and any other MAC address to Deny
>
> any suggestions
> thanks
> hare

You have to match each MAC individually, one at a time.  If there is no=20
other acceptable filtering criteria (IP + incoming interface, for=20
example) then your best bet is something like this:

iptables -N MACtest
iptables -A MACtest -m mac --mac-source 00:11:22:33:44:55 -j RETURN
iptables -A MACtest -m mac --mac-source 00:11:22:33:44:66 -j RETURN
[... etc with all 100 MACs in individual rules, followed by ...]
iptables -A MACtest -j DROP

iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED    \
-j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -j MACtest
iptables -A FORWARD {ordinary rules from here on in FORWARD}

This will take any NEW traffic coming from eth0 to be forwarded and pass=20
ALL of it to the user-defined MACtest chain, which will RETURN=20
acceptable MACs back to FORWARD for continued processing, and DROP any=20
that don't match up with one of the rules. ( This way only the NEW=20
packets have to traverse potentially 101 extra rules before ordinary=20
matching in FORWARD continues.)  You can call the same user-def chain=20
from INPUT as well, or instead.

Keep in mind that a script can build the MACtest chain in a loop, reading=
=20
the MAC addresses from a separate textfile and appending the DROP=20
'policy' after the loop completes.

j