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Professional Access Point
Administrator Guide
Class Structure, Commands, and Examples - 236
Specify an Accept or Deny List
To set up MAC filtering, you first need to specify which type of list you want to configure, and assign a
name to the list.
Add MAC Addresses of Client Stations to the Filtering List
To add a MAC address to the list:
add mac-acl list_name mac MAC_Address_Of_Client
Where list_name is the name of a MAC filtering list and MAC_Address_Of_Client is the MAC address of
the wireless client that you want to add to the MAC filtering list.
For example, to add 4 new clients to the list named Internal:
To set up an Accept list:
With this type of list, client stations whose
MAC addresses are listed will be allowed
access to the access point.
set bss interface mac-acl-mode accept-list
set bss
interface mac-acl-name list_name
Where interface is the wireless network interface for which you want
to define a MAC filtering list, and list_name is a name that you choose
for the list. Valid values for interface are as follows:
• wlan0bssInternal
• wlan0bssGuest
• wlan0bssVWN1
• wlan0bssVWN2
Example:
set bss wlan0bssGuest mac-acl-mode accept-list
set bss wlan0bssGuest mac-acl-name Guest
To set up a Deny list:
With this type of list, client stations whose
MAC addresses are listed will be denied
access to the access point.
set bss interface mac-acl-mode deny-list
set bss
interface mac-acl-name list_name
Where interface is the wireless network interface for which you want
to define a MAC filtering list, and list _ name is a name that you choose
for the list. Valid values for
interface are as follows:
• wlan0bssInternal
• wlan0bssGuest
• wlan0bssVWN1
• wlan0bssVWN2
Example:
set bss wlan0bssInternal mac-acl-mode deny-list
set bss wlan0bssInternal mac-acl-name Internal