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Configuration → Network → Hardware groups

Function

Creating groups with "speaking" names based on MAC addresses (layer 2). A hardware

group can contain any number of MAC addresses (for example, 00:15:7E:D9:09:00). Hard-

ware groups can be used for better readability than individual MAC addresses if you will

create firewall filtering rules (See menu Configuration → 4.2.3 Configuration → Packet filter

(Firewall→ Layer 2).

Group

name

The group name for which a hardware address should be added. It may contain

letters and digits. If the given group does not exist, it will be created automatically.

Hint: Click on an existing group name will fill the empty text field.

Hard-

ware

ad-

dress

Hardware Address (also known as physical address or MAC) to be added to a

given group. These groups can be referred to by other services like filter rules e.g.

Caution: Filter rules, that use a rule with a recently modified group, will not be up-

dated until <Apply settings> is triggered (or <Save settings> respectively)