4.5 Hardware (MAC) Address Control

Every network device has a unique hardware address known as a media access control (MAC) address. This address is assigned by the manufacturer and hard- coded into each Ethernet port.

If you have a built-in 10/100 Fast Ethernet port on your computer and added a wireless 802.11b (or Apple Airport-compatible) network adapter, then you would have:

One MAC address for your built-in 10/100 port

Another MAC address for your wireless port

Tip: If you are using the FriendlyNET FR1004AL wireless router, you may want to turn on this important security feature.

Configure

Click on the Configure button to open the Hardware (MAC) Address Control page; this page has different settings for the FR1004 (wired) and FR1004AL (wireless) routers.

FR1004 WIRED ROUTER

Address Control

Check this box to turn on hardware (MAC) address control.

Default Settings

By default, all computers connected to the router will only have LAN (no Inter- net) access. Use the following Address Table to define exceptions to this default rule.

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