Hi,
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 16:32, sin wrote:
> 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.
I only wrote that because a too many people managing firewalls don't
know it.
Colin
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