3Com WL-455 manual Filter Control, Filtering by Vlan

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Parameter

Description

 

 

System Default

Define the default filtering setting as Deny or Allow.

MAC Address

Enter the MAC address of a client for the access control. You can

 

find the MAC address of a network card as follows:

 

Windows 95/98/ME—Click Start/Run. Type winipcfg and press

 

Enter. The MAC address is in the Adapter Address section.

 

Windows NT4/2000/XP—At the command prompt, type

 

ipconfig /all and press Enter. The MAC address is listed as the

 

Physical Address.

 

Linux—Run the command “/sbin/ipconfig.” The card’s MAC

 

address is the value after the word “HWaddr.”

Permission

Allows or denies access to the access point of devices matching

 

the specified MAC address.

Update button

Click Update to refresh the MAC Authentication Table. To avoid

 

the possibility of entering an invalid MAC address on the

 

Authentication page, always click Update after typing the

 

address. If you press Enter, address error checking does

 

not occur.

 

 

FILTER CONTROL

The Filter Control page allows you to control client communication within the wireless network. You may enable one or more types of supported filtering; however, some filter choices may supersede others. Configure the options as described below. When you are finished, click Apply.

FILTERING BY VLAN

The access point supports filtering of up to 64 VLANs (virtual local area networks). VLAN IDs must be configured for each client on one of the RADIUS authentication servers specified on the RADIUS configuration page. If a RADIUS server is not being used or not setup to update the VLAN ID, then the access point will tag all ethernet packets with the Native VLAN ID (defaulted to 1).

If a RADIUS authentication server will be used to create/modify the VLAN ID, the following attributes must be provisioned on the RADIUS Server to be passed back to the authenticating client:

The AP’s IP address is the RADIUS Client/Radius User Tunnel_type (64) = VLAN (13)

Tunnel_Medium_type (65) = 802

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