[geeks] Macintosh computers and MAC address blocking

[der Mouse]

> To allow for a wildcard would break the very concept of MAC address
> filtering -

...huh?

I can't see how wildcarding breaks "the very concept".

Blocking (say) 00:c0:95:eb:*:* is really just a shorthand for blocking
all 65536 addresses from 00:c0:95:eb:00:00 through 00:c0:95:eb:ff:ff -
conceptually not at all difficult.

> Sun MAC address start 00:08 and go on from there (IIRC), so something
> like 00:08:*:*:... could do it...

You're probably thinking of the 08:00:20 prefix.

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