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Re: Filter MAC address with IPFW




On 12 Jun 2007, at 04:48, Dan Shoop wrote:

At 9:13 PM -0400 6/10/07, Barrett Hartman wrote:
In BSD you need to have the sysctl variable net.link.ether.ipfw set to 1 for layer 2 checks in IPFW. I didn't see an equivalent sysctl variable in OS X.

sysctl -a | grep net\.inet\.ip\.fw\.


and that tells us?

This isn't BSD.

I think we know that. The original poster was pointing out that he did not find a way to enable filtering at layer 2. This is probably impossible on MacOSX at the moment. It is a bug though that man pages have not been modified accordingly.


Giuliano
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