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From: Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl>
To: "Gerard París Aixalà" <gerard.paris@estudiants.urv.cat>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Filtering MAC addresses and Multicast
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:23:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D052DD.3060103@rtij.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D05188.3040506@estudiants.urv.cat>

Gerard París Aixalà wrote:

> Martijn Lievaart wrote:
>
>> Gerard París Aixalà wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> /sbin/iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -m mac --mac-source
>>> 00:06:5B:12:C9:7A -j DROP
>>> /sbin/iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -m mac --mac-source
>>> 00:06:5B:13:4A:69 -j DROP
>>>
>>> These rules drop Unicast traffic but they do not drop Multicast
>>> traffic.
>>
>>
>> Multicast traffic is sent to specific multicast MAC adresses.
>> Learn how multicast works and drop the corresponding MAC addresses.
>> (No I don't have a link handy, tcp/ip illustrated would be a good,
>> but pricy source).
>>
>> HTH,
>> M4
>>
>
> I know how multicast works, but I want to drop packets with the
> specified MAC source adresses. In multicast, the source address is
> always a real one, to identify which computer the packet came from
> (the destination address, both MAC and IP, is a special one).


<blush> Oops, my bad. Should read better. Sorry, Can't help you there.
If you don't get a reply on this list in a few days, maybe ask
netfilter-devel, because this looks like a bug.

M4



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-02  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-01  8:35 Filtering MAC addresses and Multicast Gerard París Aixalà
     [not found] ` <44CFB3EE.2010007@rtij.nl>
2006-08-02  7:17   ` Gerard París Aixalà
2006-08-02  7:23     ` Martijn Lievaart [this message]
2006-08-02  9:40       ` Gáspár Lajos
2006-08-02 11:55         ` Gerard París Aixalà
2006-08-02 12:12           ` Gáspár Lajos
2006-08-02 16:04             ` Gerard París Aixalà

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