Unfortunatly, tcpwrappers has no knowledge of MAC addresses, it is
strictly a hostname filtering system (due to it being at the
application level). However, you can use iptables with the mac address
module to filter it at that level.
/vijay
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Mike Branda wrote:
> I've been googling for a bit and was wondering if anybody knows if you
> can use the /etc/hosts.allow & hosts.deny files by MAC address instead
> of network/netmask? I need to deny ssh from everyone but specific
> machines regardless of IP due to it being dynamic. I have it set up the
> IP way now but if the address get's re-assigned outside the current
> block I get screwed. I'd like to set it by the MAC of the originating
> machine if possible.
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
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