Re: [netatalk-admins] how do you restrict netatalk by ip address?


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] how do you restrict netatalk by ip address?
From: Osma Ahvenlampi (oa@spray.fi)
Date: Wed Jul 29 1998 - 04:15:56 EDT


Mark Donnelly <mark@coe.missouri.edu> writes:
> It would take either writing a new utility or re-writing arp, but if you
> could grab the given computer's hardware ethernet address (which *MUST* be
> transmitted with *EVERY* packet), and then compare that to a list
> generated by arp (esp. after pinging the broadcast address), then you
> might be able to discover the correct IP address.

Routers and bridges between LANs or segments will stop that from working.

-- 
He who hesitates is last. 
Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@spray.fi>



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