Limit DHCP requests with iptables - problem: Router

[Alex Bligh]

--On 7 February 2011 10:52:58 +0100 Jürgen Dietl 
<juergen.dietl at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Is there a possibility in iptables to read the dhcp-header for the mac
> address and put THIS mac-address in the rule for traffic limitation?

Theoretically. See (e.g.) the iptables "u32" option which can examine
arbitrary 32 bits words within the packets.

You might, however, find it easier to patch dchpd to do a token leaky
bucket rate limit.

-- 
Alex Bligh