ban mac adress ?

aLcadraz · Post by **aLcadraz** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:51 pm

is it possible to ban users mac adress from server ?

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:22 pm

Not with UnrealIRCd. Try using your system's firewall.

Why do you need to do this?

aLcadraz · Post by **aLcadraz** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:57 pm

Jason wrote:Not with UnrealIRCd. Try using your system's firewall.

Why do you need to do this?

some lamers alwalys change their ip adresses and comeback again to server so k-g-z lines has become unnecessery.

Stealth · Post by **Stealth** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:30 am

Unreal cannot retrieve information from the raw packet that would contain the MAC address. http://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=1939

Grunt · Post by **Grunt** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:22 pm

The MAC address can be changed too, so that'd be useless IMO.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:34 pm

Note Grunt's post, and gline the entire subnet, or use spamfilters to gline them whenever they come on.

A well crafted USER spamfilter is very useful for this.

aquanight · Post by **aquanight** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:51 am

Indeed - in fact a MAC address is MUCH easier to change (examples: some routers allow MAC spoofing, user could buy a new NIC, etc).

Furthermore, MAC addresses aren't visible beyond a router. Any kind of router. Gateway router, internet router (which all internet traffic goes through at some point - usually immediately after it leaves your house/office/whatever), whatever. MAC addresses are essentially "LAN only" addresses (in addition to the fact that basic TCP/IP API does not provide access to such addresses), so it would be absolutely impossible to even reliably retrieve someone's MAC address - let alone ban it.