890-007 Rev. A 01/28/99
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© 1999 RadioLAN, Inc.
The databases contain the following columns:
•
Item
•
MAC Address
•
Mask Bytes
•
Source/Dest.
•
Accept/Reject
Item
The
Item
column shows the order in which the CPU stored the database entry.
MAC Address
The
MAC Address
column displays the MAC Address (in six, two-character octets) for the remote network node.
Enter the MAC Address of the device that you want to enter into the database.
Although you can use
00
as a specific value for an octet, you can also use
00
when creating a “wildcard” octet.
Using wildcards allows you to specify a range of addresses, as opposed to just a single address.
For example, the first three octets of the MAC Address for all RadioLAN products is 00 A0 D4. If you want to allow
all RadioLAN products access to the CPU, set the
MAC Address
field to
00 A0 D4 00 00 00
,
and the
Mask Bytes
field to
ff ff ff 00 00 00.
The wildcard is a result of a relationship between the MAC Address and the
Mask Bytes
field.