Chapter 5 Further Configuration
4.7SNMP Setup
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a set of communication protocols that separates the management architecture from the architecture of the hardware devices.
Enabling SNMP
Click on SNMP from the CONFIGURATION menu.
Select Enable from the SNMP State
The default Read Password is set to public while the default Read/Write Password is private.
Click on the Apply button.
4.8MAC Filtering
MAC Filtering acts as a security measures by controlling the users from accessing to the network. This can be easily done by adding the user’s MAC address to the listing and from there, you can choose whether the particular user is allowed to access to the network or not. Simply click on the radio button besides Allow PCs listed to access network, or Prevent PCs listed from accessing network to activate the function.
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