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Chapter 5 Wireless LAN
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More AP: Edit
LABEL DESCRIPTION
OK Click OK to save your changes.
Cancel Click Cancel to exit this screen without saving.
5.4 The MAC Authentication Screen
This screen allows you to configure the Device to give exclusive access to specific devices (Allow)
or exclude specific devices from accessing the Device (Deny) . Every Ethernet device has a unique
MAC (Media Access Control) address. The MAC address is assigned at the factory and consists of six
pairs of hexadecimal characters, for example, 00:A0:C5:00:00:02. You need to know the MAC
addresses of the devices to configure this screen.
Use this screen to view your Device’s MAC filter settings and add new MAC filter rules. Click
Network Setting > Wireless > MAC Authentication . The screen appears as shown.
Figure 26
Network Setting > Wireless > MAC Authentication
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 13
Network Setting > Wireless > MAC Authentication
LABEL DESCRIPTION
SSID Select the SSID for which you want to configure MAC filter settings.
MAC Restrict
Mode Define the filter action for the list of MAC addresses in the MAC Address table.
Select Disable to turn off MAC filtering.
Select Allow to permit access to the Device. MAC addresses not listed will be denied access
to the Device.
Select Deny to block access to the Device. MAC addresses not listed will be allowed to access
the Device.
MAC address List
Add new MAC
address Click this if you want to add a new MAC address entry to the MAC filter list below.
Enter the MAC addresses of the wireless devices that are allowed or denied access to the
Device in these address fields. Enter the MAC addresses in a valid MAC address format, that
is, six hexadecimal character pairs, for example, 12:34:56:78:9a:bc.
# This is the index number of the entry.
MAC Address This is the MAC addresses of the wireless devices that are allowed or denied access to the
Device.