From: Shao Miller <Shao.Miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Filter MAC Destination
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:34:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FDF4A7F.8000609@YRDSB.Edu.On.Ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1205311918550.13599@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
On 5/31/2012 13:19, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2012-05-31 19:14, Miller, Shao wrote:
>> I would like to filter Spanning-Tree Protocol data units, which have
>> a common destination MAC address. Is filtering based on a
>> destination MAC address possible, or only based on a source MAC address?
> It is indeed possible to check for source and/or destination MAC
> address for STP packets.
Thanks a lot, Jan. My guess is that a certain vendor is using netfilter
"underneath", so I was trying to figure out why their firewalls had the
ability to filter based on source MAC, but not destination. So I've no
idea.
Have a pleasant day.
- Shao Miller
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-18 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-31 17:14 Filter MAC Destination Miller, Shao
2012-05-31 17:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-06-18 15:34 ` Shao Miller [this message]
2012-06-18 15:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-06-18 15:58 ` Shao Miller
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