Firewall-1

Re: [FW-1] mac address

Subject: Re: [FW-1] mac address
From: sin <sin AT IMACANDI DOT NET>
To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST AT AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT DOT COM
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:50:45 +0300
Ramki Security wrote:
> Checkpoint being an IP firewall, doesn't work on MAC address.  Hence I
> don't think there is a way to do this.  By the way, why you want to do
> this?

one reason would be to want to filter traffic based on mac address
(let's say: I want only traffic from a.b.c.d.e.f mac to have access to
the internet).

as a side note, it's a pitty that no one at CKP implemented this in
their products.

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