Chapter 7 Wireless LAN

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 addresses of the devices to configure this screen.

Use this screen to change your ZyXEL Device’s MAC filter settings.Click Network

>Wireless LAN > MAC Filter. The following screen displays.

Figure 46 Wireless LAN > MAC Filter

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 24 Wireless LAN > MAC Filter

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active MAC

Select the check box to enable MAC address filtering.

Filter

 

 

 

MAC Restrict

Define the filter action for the list of MAC addresses in the table below.

Mode

Select Allow to permit access to the ZyXEL Device, MAC addresses not

 

 

listed will be denied access to the ZyXEL Device.

 

Select Deny to block access to the ZyXEL Device, MAC addresses not listed

 

will be allowed to access the ZyXEL Device

 

 

MAC

Enter the MAC addresses of the wireless devices that are allowed or denied

Address

access to the ZyXEL Device in these address fields. Enter the MAC

 

addresses in a valid MAC address format, that is, six hexadecimal character

 

pairs, for example, 12:34:56:78:9a:bc.

 

 

Add Entries

Click this to save and insert the entry to the table below.

 

 

Set

This is the index number of the MAC address.

 

 

MAC

This is the MAC addresses of the wireless devices that are allowed or denied

Address

access to the ZyXEL Device.

 

 

Remove

Select the entry(ies) that you want to delete in the Remove column, then

 

click the Remove button.

 

 

Apply

Click this to save your changes back to the ZyXEL Device.

 

 

Remove

Click this to delete the selected entry(ies).

 

 

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