Adding an IP Pool

IP/MAC binding

IP/MAC binding protects the DFL-500 NPG and your network from IP spoofing attacks. IP spoofing attempts to use the IP address of a trusted computer to connect to or through the firewall from a different computer. The IP address of a computer can easily be changed to a trusted address, but MAC addresses are added to ethernet cards at the factory and cannot easily be changed.

You can enter the static IP addresses and corresponding MAC addresses of trusted computers in the Static IP/MAC table.

If you have trusted computers with dynamic IP addresses that are set by the DFL-500 DHCP server, the firewall adds these IP addresses and their corresponding MAC addresses to the Dynamic IP/MAC table. See Providing DHCP services to your internal network. The dynamic IP/MAC binding table is not available in Transparent mode.

IP/MAC binding can be enabled for packets connecting to the firewall or passing through the firewall.

If you enable IP/MAC binding and change the IP address of a computer with an IP address or MAC address in the IP/MAC list, you must also change the entry in the IP/MAC list or the computer will not have access to or through the firewall. You must also add the IP/MAC address pair of any new computer that you add to your network or this computer will not have access to or through the firewall.

This section describes:

Configuring IP/MAC binding for packets going through the firewall

Configuring IP/MAC binding for packets going to the firewall

Adding IP/MAC addresses

Viewing the dynamic IP/MAC list

Enabling IP/MAC binding

Configuring IP/MAC binding for packets going through the firewall

Use the following procedure to use IP/MAC binding to filter packets that would normally be matched with firewall policies to be able to go through the firewall.

Go to Firewall > IP/MAC Binding > Setting .

Select Enable IP/MAC binding going through the firewall.

Go to Firewall > IP/MAC Binding > Static IP/MAC .

Select New to add IP/MAC binding pairs to the IP/MAC binding list.

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D-Link DFL-500 IP/MAC binding, Go to Firewall IP/MAC Binding Setting, Go to Firewall IP/MAC Binding Static IP/MAC