National Instruments WAP-3701, WAP-3711 user manual MAC-Address-Based Access Control

NI WAP-3701/3711 User’s Manual Web Console Configuration

MAC-Address-Based Access Control

With MAC-Address-Based Access Control, you can specify the wireless client computers that are permitted or not permitted to associate with the NI WAP-3701/3711. When the table type is set to inclusive, entries in the table are permitted to associate with the NI WAP-3701/3711. When the table type is set to exclusive, entries in the table are not permitted to associate with the NI WAP-3701/3711.

To deny access for wireless clients to the wireless network:

1.Select Enabled from the Functionality drop-down list.

2.Set the Access control type to exclusive.

3.Specify the MAC address of a wireless client to be denied access, and then click Add.

4.Repeat Steps 3 for other wireless clients.

To grant access for wireless clients to the wireless network:

1.Select Enabled from the Functionality drop-down list.

2.Set the Access control type to inclusive.

3.Specify the MAC address of a wireless client to be denied access, and then click Add.

4.Repeat Steps 3 for other wireless clients.

To delete an entry in the access control table:

yClick Delete next to the entry.

NOTE The size of the access control table is 64.

Instead of manually entering MAC addresses to the access control table one by one, you can prepare a text file that contains all the MAC addresses and put it on a TFTP server, and then command the NI WAP-3701/3711 to download the MAC ACL (Access Control List) file from the TFTP server. The following figure shows the contents of a sample ACL file.

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