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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

  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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