CLI how can i see if a mac address is allowed on an interface (without the rest of the junk)?

davidortenn79

So, I'm using a watchguard firewall as my home internet router/parent filter. It's a little overboard and more complicated to make some stuff work. (But, it also does stuff that a typical home router can't.)

I'm trying to find a way to enable/disable devices via CLI so the kids have bed times. Now, I shouldn't see I'm trying. I figured that part out. To allow my kids to use a device or not, I wrote some telnet scripts that add and remove the mac address from the allowed list. I can run it as a script from an app on my phone.

But, what if I wanted to know if a device is enabled or not??? If the mac address is in the config or not? I can show the interface but it shows everything about the interface. All I'm concerned about at that moment is if the mac address that I'm controlling is there or not. I don't see a way to narrow it down to only show the mac addresses allowed. It would be even cooler if I could somehow grep or pull the line of text that matches the mac address Im looking for. It's a phone app. I don't want to look through 50 lines of config to see if the mac address is there or not. it woud be even cooler if I could make an if statement that says, if the mac address is present, output "Yes" or if not, output "No."

james.carson

There doesn't seem to be any way to do this specific thing on the firewall itself. The best thing I can suggest is to log or write your output to a file or similar and search it there for the specific mac address you want.