Plans to support traffic limit for a MAC address

[NetForces]

Hi,

Great project and I see a lot of momentum on it right now. Is there any plans to support traffic control using device MAC address ?

[thombashi]

Hi @NetForces,

Could you tell me more the details about "traffic limit for a MAC address"?
I am not sure what exactly means that.

Are you imagine the followings or any other ideas?

• L2 level traffic control
  • this would probably impossible because of tc command not supported the feature
• source/destination specifier options like --dst-macaddr/--src-macaddr
  • get a target IP address to incur traffic control from a mac address
  • this could be possible, but I am not sure the use cases

[NetForces]

Yup options like --dst-macaddr/--src-macaddr

In a dynamic system where devices on the network get their IP from a DHCP server, the device IP may change over time. While a process to catch these and change the tc rules dynamically is possible it's a real pain. Using the mac address for traffic control means that you set it once for a physical device and do not have to touch it anymore, independant of it's IP address.

[thombashi]

Thank you for your explanation.

I understand the use case.
I will consider the feature for the future release.