ZyXEL Communications NWA-3550, NWA-3500 12.2What You Can Do in the Layer-2Isolation Screen, 12.3 What You Need To Know

Chapter 12 Layer-2 Isolation Screen

MAC addresses that are not listed in the Allow devices with these MAC addresses table of the Wireless > Layer-2 Isolation screen are blocked from communicating with the NWA’s wireless clients except for broadcast packets. Layer-2 isolation does not check the traffic between wireless clients that are associated with the same AP. Intra-BSS Traffic allows wireless clients associated with the same AP to communicate with each other.

12.2What You Can Do in the Layer-2 Isolation Screen

Use the Wireless > Layer-2 Isolation screen (see Section 12.4 on page 167) to configure the MAC addresses of the wireless client, AP, computer or router that you want to allow the associated wireless clients to have access to.

12.3 What You Need To Know

Every Ethernet device has a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address. The MAC address is assigned at the factory and consists of six pairs of hexadecimal characters, for example, 00:A0:C5:00:00:02. You need to know the MAC address of each device to configure MAC filtering on the NWA.

If layer-2 isolation is enabled, you need to know the MAC address of each wireless client, AP, computer or router that you want to allow to communicate with the ZyXEL Device's wireless clients.

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