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Re: Filtering by Ethernet HW address?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Maciag)
Mon Oct 26 20:42:50 1998

Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:42:41 -0500
From: Ted Maciag <tsm@wwnet.net>
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Just kill a few of their proc's and wait for them to call ya on the phone.
Cruel but works well.

-ted


Kevin M. Myer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently inherited the job of net cop for our school district.  There
> are certain people who are obviously violating our "Fair Use Internet
> Policy" and I've managed to obtain several MAC's in this case Ethernet
> hardware addresses.  However, I don't know whose machines these are (aside
> from what I can deduce from the vendor's database of ethernet hardware
> addresses - they're Power Mac's with PCI buses, but that describes about
> 400 of our machines here...).
>
> Is there any software for Linux that will allow me to filter based on
> ethernet hardware address so that I can figure out what traffic is going
> to and from these particular machines?
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> Kevin
>
> --
> Kevin M. Myer
> Technical Services Specialist
> ELANCO School District
>
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Ted Maciag



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