Hawking Hi-Gain HWREN2, User Manual

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2-7 MAC Address Filtering
Another security measure you can use to keep hackers and intruders away
is ‘MAC Address filtering’. You can pre-define a so-called ‘white-list’,
which contains MAC addresses of the wireless clients you trust. All other
wireless clients with a MAC address that are not in your list will be
denied by this wireless range extender.
To setup MAC filtering, click ‘MAC Address Filtering’ on left hand
column under the ‘Security’ tab in the web management interface and the
following page will be displayed:
This page contains two parts of MAC filtering information. All allowed
MAC addresses will be listed in upper part, and you can add new MAC
addresses by components in lower part.
Enable Wireless
Access Control Check this box to enable MAC address restriction.
If unchecked, no restriction will be enforced (any
wireless client with proper encryption setting will
be able to connect to this wireless range extender).
MAC address Input MAC address allowed using this wireless