[Wylug-help] Remote access to NAS storage

[Lee Evans]

>>Filtering by MAC address on inbound connections?  Your home router doesn't
>>have the faintest idea what the MAC address of a remote >machine is,
surely?

>I could find out, assuming I am using the same machine every time. I have
>physical access to both ends. At least I could use IP address, which does
>not change.

MACs never change - they are, for the most part, as good as hard-coded into
the network adapter. An IP could change for any one of a number of good
reasons.

However, John was right. MACs work at the datalink layer and your broadband
router will know nothing about the MAC address of the remote system so you
can't filter on it.


Lee
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Lee Evans