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4.6.4 MAC Filtering
Choose menu “
Security
→
MAC Address Filtering
”, you can configure the MAC
Address filtering rule in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-32). The MAC Address
Filtering feature allows you to control access to the Internet by users on your local
network based on their MAC addresses.
Figure 4-32
¾
MAC Address
-
.This is the PC’S MAC address which is controlled by the rule, its
format of is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX (X is any hexadecimal digit). For example:
00-0E-AE-B0-00-0B.
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Description -
This is the description about the PC, Fox example: John’s PC.
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Status
-
This field displays the status,
Enabled
means the rule is effective,
Disabled
means the rule is ineffective.
To add or modify a Domain Filtering entry:
Fox example:
If you want to block the PCs with MAC addresses 00-0A-EB-00-07-BE
and 00-0A-EB-00-07-5F to access the Internet, you can configure as follows.
Step 1:
Enable the “Firewall” and “MAC Address Filtering” on the Firewall screen (show
in Figure 4-25). And then specify the Default MAC Address Filtering Rule "Deny
these PCs with enabled rules to access the Internet".
Step 2:
Click
Add New…
/
Modify
shown in Figure 4-32, you will see a new screen
shown in Figure 4-33.
Step 3:
Enter the appropriate MAC address and descriptions, then select the status as
shown in Figure 4-33.
