On January 30, 2004 09:02 am, Szemerédy Gábor wrote: > Hello list members! > We have a server with its public IP address and there is also a subnet > with > local addresses (192.168.0.x) on it. > We would like to limit the access from certain IP address so that it can > > be > established only if the request comes from the same workstation. > Something like capturing the workstations MAC address to its IP address > , > so that the user can browse the internet only if the MAC address of the > workstation and the IP address are equal to the predefined values. > We do traffic accounting by IP address and would like to prevent using > the account of an other workstation by changing the IP address. > (In current situation one can browse the internet with certain IP > address and then > change the IP address and use the account of an other person). > Is there any solution? > Thanks Hi, I have not worked with it, but iptables (netfilter) has a MAC module, so you could look for source IP and MAC. Keep in mind it would fail if you have a router between the pc and the firewall. search there site at www.netfilter.org -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
