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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ 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]
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2005-06-29 11:56 MAC filtering varun_saa
2005-06-29 15:58 ` Gustavo Castro Puig
2005-06-29 20:30 ` /dev/rob0
2004-01-14 23:58 MAC Filtering Gopal Chandavarapu
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