how to allow by MAC
Bill Yuan
bycn82 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 03:16:18 UTC 2012
Hi Lan,
Thanks for your reply, I am reading some old emails which you sent in 2008
while other place asked a same question as mine,
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 18, Message: 1
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:43:39 +0800 Bill Yuan <bycn82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > how to allow by MAC in ipfw
> >
> > currently i set the rule like below
> >
> > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any to <MAC Address 1>
> > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC <MAC Address 1> any
> > 2 deny all from any to any
> >
> > i want to only allow the mac address to go through the freebsd firewall,
> >
> > but I found it is not working on my freebsd but it works on pfsense!
> >
> > so maybe that means the environment is not the same ? and how to setup
> the
> > ipfw properly to support this ?
>
> Bill, you did get some good clues in the earlier thread, but it's not
> clear if you took note of them. There's also been some confusion ..
>
> Firstly, read up on layer2 (ethernet, MAC-level) filtering options in
> ipfw(8). Thoroughly, several times, until you've got it. Seriously.
>
> After enabling sysctl net.link.ether.ipfw=1 (add it to /etc/sysctl.conf)
> ipfw will be invoked 4 times instead of the normal 2, on every packet.
>
> Read carefully ipfw(8) section 'PACKET FLOW', and see that only on the
> inbound pass invoked from ether_demux() and the outbound pass invoked
> from ether_output_frame() can you test for MAC addresses (or mac-types);
> the 'normal' layer3 passes examine packets that have no layer2 headers.
>
> You could just add 'layer2' to any rules filtering on MAC addresses, and
> omit MAC addresses from all layer 3 (IP) rules, but I'd recommend using
> a method like shown there to separate layer2 and layer3 flows early on:
>
> # packets from ether_demux
> ipfw add 10 skipto 1000 all from any to any layer2 in
> # packets from ip_input
> ipfw add 10 skipto 2000 all from any to any not layer2 in
> # packets from ip_output
> ipfw add 10 skipto 3000 all from any to any not layer2 out
> # packets from ether_output_frame
> ipfw add 10 skipto 4000 all from any to any layer2 out
>
> So at (eg) 1000 and 4000 place your incoming and outgoing MAC filtering
> rules (remembering the reversed order of MAC addresses vs IP addresses,
> and to allow broadcasts as well), pass good guys and/or block bad guys,
> then deal with your normal IPv4|v6 traffic in a separate section(s).
>
> Or you could just split the flows into two streams, one for layer2 for
> your MAC filtering, the other for layer3, ie the rest of your ruleset.
>
> HTH, Ian [please cc me on any reply]
>
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