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ban mac adress ?
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:51 pm
by aLcadraz
is it possible to ban users mac adress from server ?
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:22 pm
by Jason
Not with UnrealIRCd. Try using your system's firewall.
Why do you need to do this?
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:57 pm
by aLcadraz
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:30 am
by Stealth
Unreal cannot retrieve information from the raw packet that would contain the MAC address.
http://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=1939
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:22 pm
by Grunt
The MAC address can be changed too, so that'd be useless IMO.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:34 pm
by Jason
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.
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:51 am
by aquanight
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.