Wireless MAC Filtering Help
The Wireless MAC Address Filtering feature allows you to control the wireless
stations accessing the router, which depend on the station's MAC addresses.
- MAC Address - The wireless station's MAC address that you want
to access.
- Description - A simple description of the wireless station.
- Privilege - Allow means allowing the station to access the router.
Deny means denying the station to access the router. 64-bit, or 128-bit, or
152-bit means assigning a unique WEP key to access the router.
- WEP Key - Specify a unique WEP key (in the Hexadecimal format) to access the router.
- Status - The status of this entry , either Enabled or Disabled.
To disable the Wireless MAC Address Filters feature, keep the default setting, Disable.
To set up an entry, click Enable, and follow these instructions:
First, you must decide whether the unspecified wireless stations can or
cannot access the router. If you desire that the unspecified wireless
stations can access the router, please select the radio button Allow the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access, otherwise, select the radio button Deny the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access.
To Add a Wireless MAC Address filtering entry, clicking the Add New...
button, and following these instructions:
- 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.
- Enter a simple description of the wireless station in the Description
field. For example, Wireless station A.
- Privilege - Selects the privileges for this entry, one of Allow / Deny
/ 64-bit / 28-bit / 152-bit.
- WEP Key - If you select 64-bit, or 128-bit, or 152-bit in the Privilege field, enter
any combination of hexadecimal digits (0-9, a-f, A-F) in the specified length.
For example, 2F34D20BE2.
- Status - Select Enabled or Disabled for this entry on the Status pull-down
list.
- Click the Save button to save this entry.
To add another entries, repeat steps 1~6.
Note: When 64-bit, 128-bit or 152-bit is selected,
WEP Key will be enabled.
To modify or delete an existing entry:
- Click the Edit or Delete button in the modify column in
the MAC Address Filtering Table.
- Enter the value as desired in the Add or Modify Wireless MAC Address Filtering
entry page, and click the Save button.
You can click the Enable All button to make all the Entries enabled, click the Disable All button to make all the Entries disabled, click the Delete All button to delete all the entries.
Click the Next button to go to the next page and click the Previous button to return to the previous page.
For example: If you desire that the wireless station A with
MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-BE be able to access the router, the
wireless station B with MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-5F not be able to
access the router, and the wireless station C with MAC address
00-0A-EB-00-07-8A be able to access the router when its WEP key is
2F34D20BE2E54B326C5476586A, while all other wireless stations cannot
access the router, you should configure the Wireless MAC Address Filtering list following these steps:
- Click the Enable button to enable this function.
- Select the radio button: Deny the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access for Filtering Rules.
- Delete all or disable all entries if there exist any entries already.
- Click the Add New... button and enter the MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-BE in the MAC Address field, enter wireless station A in the Description field, select Allow in the Privilege pull-down list and select Enabled in the Status pull-down list. Click the Save and the Return button.
- Click the Add New... button and enter the MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-5F in the MAC Address field, enter wireless station B in the Description field, select Deny in the Privilege pull-down list and select Enabled in the Status pull-down list. Click the Save and the Return button.
- Click the Add New... button and enter the MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-8A in the MAC Address field, enter wireless station C in the Description field, select 128-bit in the Privilege pull-down list, enter 2F34D20BE2E54B326C5476586A in the WEP Key field and select Enabled in the Status pull-down list. Click the Save and the Return button.
- If you select the radio button Allow the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access for Filtering Rules,
the wireless station B still not be able to access the router, however,
other wireless stations that are not in the list be able to access the
router.
Note: If you enable the function and select the Deny the stations not specified by any enabled entries in the list to access for Filtering Rules, and there are not any enable entries in the list, thus, no wireless stations can access the router.