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Remote Access Via Mac Address and Unknown IPs

DISCUSSION OTR Comm 2 participants 2 messages Mar 12, 2007

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Hello,

I have seached Google and the archives but I can not find anything that tells me how to use iptables and mac addresses to allow a user at a remote location to access a server when the remote IP address is unknown.

What I am trying to do is setup a rule where a client with a laptop can roam and still have access to certain ports (primarily 427 amd 548 for atalk access). I want to restrict access by mac address, but I can not figure out how to do it given that I will never know an IP address where the client might be coming from.

Is there a way to do this with iptables?

I figure I have to have some kind of established tcp communication before I can identify the mac address, but it is like I have to open the ports up to the world and then drop sessions not coming from a particular mac address.

Can someone help me with this one please?

Thanks,

Murrah Boswell

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I have seached Google and the archives but I can not find anything that tells me how to use iptables and mac addresses to allow a user at a remote location to access a server when the remote IP address is unknown.

You can't. A host MAC address is only visible on local network. After the first router, you don't see it anymore...

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