Secure Wireless Router using FreeBSD ...

[Andrew Thompson]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:27:02AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> Within my Linksys, I can restrict wireless to MAC addresses, as well as using 
> stuff like WPA ... quick search on google, and I found:
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>        <http://www.howtoforge.com/setting_up_a_freebsd_wlan_access_point>
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> Which talks about setting up a WPA based wireless network ... but, some way of 
> doing MAC based restrictions as well?  I'm suspecting that I can using pf, deny 
> all MAC then allow specific ones ... What I would like to find, if it exists, 
> is an application that I can run on FreeBSD so that there is a "user friendly" 
> interface to this, vs having someone have to muddle with flat files and reload 
> rules ...

See wlan_acl(4) and mac:allow in ifconfig(8).


Andrew