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: Mon, 29 May 2006 09:32:42 +0300
Colin Campbell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 02:50, sin wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> You do understand that you can only MAC addresses of machines on the
> same LAN segment, don't you. If the machines you want to control are
> behind a router you'll only ever see the router MAC address.
> 

obviously.

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