Or, when a client does the check in, after requesting his/hers ID, phone and 
credit card, ask for the MAC address :p That way you could use the "Enable 
Static ARP entries" feature.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "YvesDM" <ydmlog at gmail dot com>
To: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] deny certain mac address from getting an ip?


> Yeps, I asked the hotel manager to put up a sign at the door.
> "We check your laptop for antivirus software before we rent you a room"
>
> As you understand, we have no control over the clients.
> ;-)
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Matt Hohman <mhohman at newheights dot org> 
> wrote:
>
>> Or install a virus scanner on the client. AVG Free is well Free.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2008, at 11:02 AM, YvesDM wrote:
>>
>>  On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal dash pc dot org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  YvesDM wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So I blocked all dest. p25 traffic from his ip of with a firewall rule 
>>>> on
>>>>
>>>>> the LAN if (on top of the list, so above lan net->any) , but somehow 
>>>>> he
>>>>> still manages to crash the system.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Note that blocking and rejecting are different.  Specifically, one
>>>> creates
>>>> a state.  Which are you doing?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I did block them, not reject.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> As to assigning a bogus IP, I know the GUI does sanity checking, but 
>>>> does
>>>> the config file?  What if you assign a static IP, save the config, 
>>>> change
>>>> it
>>>> in the config to 127.0.0.1, and upload the config?  Or just give it a
>>>> totally invalid IP with no route to the firewall?
>>>>
>>>>                      Lee
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Damn lee, good idea!
>>> My problem is solved for now, but i will sure test this out on a testbox
>>> this week and post the results.
>>> This can be very very handy in the future! Tnx!
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Y.
>>>
>>
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