TP-Link TL-R480T+ manual MAC Filtering, Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide

TL-R480T+

Load Balance Broadband Router User Guide

Click the Delete button to delete the entry.

Click the Enable All button to enable all the entries. Click the Disable All button to disable all the entries. Click the Delete All button to delete all the entries.

Click the Previous button to view the information in the previous screen, click the Next button to view the information in the next screen.

4.6.4MAC Filtering

Choose menu “Security→MAC Filtering”, you can configure the MAC Address filtering rule in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-38). The MAC Address Filtering feature allows you to control access to the Internet by users on your local network based on their MAC addresses.

Figure 4-38

¾MAC Address - .This is the PC’S MAC address which is controlled by the rule, its format of is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX (X is any hexadecimal digit). For example: 00-0E-AE-B0-00-0B.

¾Description - This is the description about the PC, Fox example: John’s PC.

¾Status - This field displays the status, Enabled means the rule is effective, Disabled means the rule is ineffective.

To add or modify a MAC Filtering entry:

Fox example: If you want to block the PCs with MAC addresses 00-0A-EB-00-07-BE and 00-0A-EB-00-07-5F to access the Internet, you can configure as follows.

Step 1: Enable the “Firewall” and “MAC Address Filtering” on the Firewall screen (show in Figure 4-31). And then specify the Default MAC Address Filtering Rule "Deny these PCs with enabled rules to access the Internet".

Step 2: Click Add New…/Modify shown in Figure 4-38,you will see a new screen shown in Figure 4-39.

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