Advanced Administration

MAC Address Select the appropriate option

∙Automatic discovery - Select this to have the ADSL Wire- less Firewall Router contact the PC and find its MAC address. This is only possible if the PC is connected to the LAN and powered On.

∙MAC address is - Enter the MAC address on the PC. The MAC address is also called the "Hardware Address", "Physi- cal Address", or "Network Adapter Address". The ADSL Wireless Firewall Router uses this to provide a unique identi- fier for each PC. Because of this, the MAC address can NOT be left blank.

Buttons

Add as New

Add a new PC to the list, using the data in the "Properties" box.

Entry

If "Automatic discovery" (for MAC address) is selected, the PC

 

will be sent a "ping" to determine its hardware address. This will

 

fail unless the PC is connected to the LAN, and powered on.

Update Se-

Update (modify) the selected PC, using the data in the "Proper-

lected PC

ties" box.

 

 

Clear Form

Clear the "Properties" box, ready for entering data for a new PC.

 

 

Refresh

Update the data on screen.

 

 

Generate Re-

Display a read-only list showing full details of all entries in the PC

port

database.

 

 

Standard

Click this to view the standard PC Database screen.

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