How to control internet sharing via MAC access control list?

Hello,
I know how to share the internet over the Wi-Fi. I know that there could be a password. But I need to control users by MAC addresses, just like in the routers. So, I want to give an access ONLY to a several MAC addresses which I'll write in some ?list?. But the main point is that the other computers, which are not included in that list, can't access my network.
I figured out that it is nearly impossible to do via standard utilities in mac os, so is there any 3rd party software for such things?
Thank you very much for your help!

{quote:title=Matthew Morgan wrote:}
You need to set this up with whatever your using as your wireless router.
Yes, and I'm trying to figure out how to do it

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apparantly an thunderstorm fried my ethernet-card in my MBP this morning. Now I am struggling to get internet-access via my iBook G3 which has DSL-boradband via ethernet (pPOE) (either via firewire or airport) but don't succeed:
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Greetings,
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