Re: [users] MAC -> IP?

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

Hi,
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:13:03AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
> ...
> > That is true. However, it seems like a good idea to filter that way. Will
> > this do the job?
> > iptables -P INPUT DROP
> > iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -d ! 212.127.242.126 -j DROP
> 
> This will drop all legitimate multicast/broadcast too.
> 
Does that hurt? I mean, will my/the internet performace go down? What is
the use of broadcast messages over the internet?

Thanks,
Sebastiaan