Filter:

The next tab on the dialog box is Filter (Figure 13). This is a one-way protocol filtering mechanism that prevents the AP from transmitting specified protocols from a wired Ethernet LAN into the wireless LAN. If you do not require particular protocols on the wireless part of your network, you can save bandwidth by enabling the protocol filter.

Figure 13. Configuration/Filter

From the Filter card, some, all, or none of the protocols listed may be selected for filtering out:

•IP Protocol

•IPX Protocol

•NetBEUI Protocol

•AppleTalk Protocol

•Other Protocols

•Internet Multicast Frames

After selecting a protocol to be filtered, click the Apply button to make the changes effective immediately, without closing the dialog box, or click OK to accept the changes and close the box.

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