MAC Address Filtering Help

Similar to IP Address Filtering page, the MAC Address Filtering page allows you to control to access Internet by users on your local network based on their MAC Address. Before setting up MAC Filtering entries, you must ensure that Enable Firewall and Enable MAC Filtering have been selected on the Firewall page.

To Add a MAC Address filtering entry, clicking Add New... button, and following these instructions:

  1. Enter the appropriate MAC address into the MAC Address field. The format of the MAC address is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX (X is any hexadecimal digit). For example: 00-0A-EB-B0-00-0B.
  2. Enter a simple description of the station in the Description field. For example: John’s PC.
  3. Status - Select Enabled or Disabled for this entry on the Status pull-down list.
  4. Click the Save button to save this entry.

To add another entries, repeat steps 1-4.

When finished, click the Return button to return to the MAC Filtering page.

To Modify or delete an existing entry:

  1. Find the desired entry in the table.
  2. Click Modify or Delete as desired on the Edit column.

Click the Enable All button to make all entries enabled.

Click the Disable All button to make all entries disabled.

Click the Delete All button to delete all entries.

Click the Next button to go to the next page and click the Previous button return to the previous page.

For example: If you want to block the PCs with MAC Addresses 00-E0-4C-00-07-BE and 00-E0-4C-00-07-5F to access the Internet, first, Enable the Firewall and MAC Address Filtering on the Firewall page, then, you should specify the Default MAC Address Filtering Rule" Deny these PCs with enabled rules to access the Internet " on the Firewall page and the following MAC address filtering table on this page:

ID MAC Address Description Status
1 00-E0-4C-00-07-BE John's computer

Enabled

2 00-E0-4C-00-07-5F Alice's computer

Enabled