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ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N

Enable Source MAC Filtering

The Source MAC Filter screen enables you to permit or block traffic coming from certain known computers or devices.

By default, the source MAC address filter is disabled. All the traffic received from computers with any MAC address is allowed. When the source MAC address filter is enabled, depending on the selected policy, traffic is either permitted or blocked if it comes from any computers or devices whose MAC addresses are listed in MAC Addresses table.

Note: For additional ways of restricting outbound traffic, see Outbound

Rules (Service Blocking) on page 130.

To enable MAC filtering and add MAC addresses to be permitted or blocked:

1.Select Security > Address Filter. The Address Filter submenu tabs display, with the Source MAC Filter screen in view. (The following figure shows one address in the MAC Addresses table as an example.)

Figure 98.

2.In the MAC Filtering Enable section, select the Yes radio button.

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