NETGEAR WNR854T Restricting Wireless Access by MAC Address

NETGEAR RangeMax™ NEXT Wireless Router WNR854T User Manual
3-12 Safeguarding Your Network
v1.1, January 2007
Restricting Wireless Access by MAC Address
By enabling a wireless card access control list, you can restrict access to only trusted computers so
that unknown computers cannot wirelessly connect to the WNR854T.
The Wireless Card Access List displays a list of wireless computers that you will allow to connect
to the router based on their MAC addresses. These wireless computers must also have the correct
SSID and wireless security settings to access the wireless router.
The MAC address is a network device’s unique twelve-character physical address, containing the
hexadecimal characters 0–9 or A–F only, and separated by colons (for example,
00:09:AB:CD:EF:01). It can usually be found on the bottom of the wireless card or network
interface device. If you do not have access to the physical label, you can display the MAC address
using the network configuration utilities of the computer. In WindowsXP, for example, typing the
ipconfig/all command in an MSDOS Command Prompt window will display the MAC address as
Physical Address. You may also find the MAC addresses in the router’s Attached Devices menu.
To restrict access based on MAC addresses, follow these steps:
1. In the Advanced section of the main menu, click Wireless Settings
2. From the Wireless Settings menu, click Setup Access List to display the Wireless Card Access
List.
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