User`s manual

2-9. MAC Filtering

Another security measure you can use to keep hackers and intruders away is ‘MAC filtering’. You can pre-define

a so-called ‘white-list’, which contains MAC addresses of the wireless clients you trust. All other wireless client

with the MAC address which is not in your list will be denied by this wireless access point.

To setup MAC filtering, please click ‘MAC Filtering’ on the left of web management interface and the following

messages 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.

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Select Check this box to select one or more MAC address(es) to delete.

Delete Selected Click this button to delete all selected MAC address(es).

Delete All Delete all MAC address entries.

Reset Uncheck all selected MAC address entries.

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 access point).

MAC address Input MAC address allowed using this wireless access point here. You don’t

have to add colon (:) or hyphen (-) by yourself, just input 0 to 9 and a to f

here, like 112233445566 or aabbccddeeff.

Comment You can input any text here as the comment of this MAC address, like

‘ROOM 2A Computer’ or anything. You can input up to 16 alphanumerical

characters here. This is optional and you can leave it blank, however, it’s

recommended to use this field to write a comment for every MAC

addresses as a memory aid. This is optional.