ipfw and MAC-keyword: "unknown arg"; but it is in man page!

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:51:26PM +0900, Rob wrote:

> With my ipfw firewall, I try to use the MAC keyword, as explained
> in the ipfw man page:

> But to no avail:
> 
> # ipfw add 900 allow udp from any to any MAC 00:a0:b0:0e:3a:95 any
> ipfw: unknown argument ``MAC''
> #
> 
> Is this a bug, or what?

That's definitely a 'what'.  MAC header filtering is an IPFW2 feature
and that has to be enabled specially on 4-STABLE.  Read the sections
in ipfw(8) called "IPFW2 ENHANCEMENTS" and then follow the
instructions in the section "USING IPFW2 IN FreeBSD-STABLE"

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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