Airlink101 N300 user manual Set Up MAC Filtering

2.6 Set Up MAC Filtering

Another security measure you can use to keep hackers and intruders away is ‘MAC filtering’. You can pre-define a so-called ‘white-list’, which contains MAC addresses of the wireless clients you trust. All other wireless client with the MAC address which is not in your list will be denied by this wireless access point.

To set up MAC filtering, please click ‘MAC Filtering’ on the left menu and the following page will be displayed:

Address

Filtering

Table (1)

Add

New Entry

Here (2)

This page contains two parts of MAC filtering information. All allowed MAC addresses will be listed in upper part (1), and you can add new MAC addresses by components in lower part (2).

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Select	Check this box to select one or more MAC address(es) to delete.
Delete Selected	Click this button to delete all selected MAC address(es).
Delete All	Delete all MAC address entries.
Reset	Uncheck all selected MAC address entries.
Enable Wireless	Check this box to enable MAC address restriction, if unchecked, no
Access Control	restriction will be enforced (any wireless client with proper encryption
	setting will be able to connect to this wireless access point).
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