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Eric Hoffman (hoffman@cs.washington.edu)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:43:05 -0700 (PDT)

Would it be possible to use firewall features (in FreeBSD or Linux) to
drop TCP packets coming from the IP address of the machine with which
you're having the dialogue? If not a traditional firewall, then maybe
Dummynet? (http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/)

I think the orginial intent was to try to get a portable solution, if
not, it looks as if the very messy 'divert' (man divert) feature under
Free 2.2.5+ does essentially what you want

the dhcp solution is unlikely to help since the server attempts to
maintain a unique binding against the mac address, so its likely to
just return the existing address in the face of a new request (or
worse, put the old address back in the pool and return a new one)

it would seem that a truly portable scheme is very unlikely....my last
terribly hacky suggestion is to use a different ethernet encapsulation
than one normally used on the host and redirect it off the mac layer
(depending on host host facilities)