Chapter 6 Wireless LAN

Table 24 Wireless LAN > RADIUS (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes.

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

6.8 MAC Filter Screen

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 NWA1121-NI.

The MAC filter function allows you to configure the NWA1121-NI to grant access to the NWA1121- NI from other wireless devices (Allow Association) or exclude devices from accessing the NWA1121- NI (Deny Association).

Figure 38 MAC Filtering

In the figure above, wireless client U is able to connect to the Internet because its MAC address is in the allowed association list specified in the NWA1121-NI. The MAC address of client A is either denied association or is not in the list of allowed wireless clients specified in the NWA1121-NI.

 

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