3-5-3 Firewall

This broadband router supports several firewall functions which will help you to protect your network and computer. In this chapter, instructions for using these functions will be given, so you can utilize these functions to protect your network from hackers and malicious intruders.

3-5-3-1 Access Control

By using access control, you can restrict your computers from accessing improper website, or using disallowed applications. You can even only allow computers with certain MAC address to access the network, or deny the computers in the list from accessing your network.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Item Name

Description

Enable MAC Filtering

Check this box to enable MAC address based

 

filtering, and please select ‘Deny’ or ‘Allow’ to

 

decide the behavior of MAC filtering table. If

 

you select deny, all MAC addresses listed in

 

filtering table will be denied from connecting

 

to the network; if you select allow, only MAC

 

addresses listed in filtering table will be able to

 

connect to the network, and rejecting all other

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