mac address filtering implementation

[David Acker]

Goetz Bock wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04 '07 at 12:17, Andrea wrote:
>> I'm trying to implement a wireless access point using me2000 (busybox 
>> based) over a Wrap routerboard.
>>
>> A thing I'm not able to implement is a MAC address filtering feature 
>> like some access point (DLink, for example)does.
> 
> The "normal" way to do this with linux is to use hostapd.
> 
> It supports some chipsets (prism2/2.5/3, prismng, madwifi, ...) and can
> implement connection policies for you.
> 
> You may need to also add wpasupplicant to the mix.
> 

Some radio drivers support their own interfaces.  For example, the hostap driver (not to be confused with the hostapd 
user space daemon) supports special iwpriv commands maccmd and addmac.  Others might support similar calls so you might 
want to check iwpriv for your radio.

-Ack