The netfilter firewalling code in 2.4 can perform this task (I believe there are patches for this function for 2.2, but I dont recall..). On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Brian P. Clifford wrote: > We have a VAX system on our network. As a security measure, our sys admin > has chosen to not give it an IP, but to only allow connections to it via > terminal servers. This seems to introduce several unnecessary devices > into our network. I would like to put a Linux box between the VAX and teh > rest of the network. > > I think I can convince the admin to remove the terminal-only access if a > user must log in from a certain IP address verified by the specific MAC > address of their NIC. > > I have no idea how to capture the MAC address and the IP and compare them > in a table. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Brian > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
