Configuring Ip Filtering - Motorola P-7131N-FGR Product Reference Manual

4. If the Simple authentication method is selected, specify a password of up to 15
alphanumeric characters in the
5. If the MD5 authentication method is selected, fill in the
Enter any numeric value between 0 and 256 into the
of up to 16 alphanumeric characters in the
6. Click the OK
changes.

5.5 Configuring IP Filtering

Use the access point's IP filtering functionality to determine which IP packets are processed normally
by the access point and which are discarded. If discarded, a packet is deleted and ignored (as if never
received). The allow/deny mechanism used by IP filtering makes it similar to an access control list
(ACL).
IP filtering supports the creation of up to 20 filter rules enforced at layer 3. Once defined (using the
access point's SNMP, GUI or CLI), filtering rules can be enforced on the access point's LAN1 or LAN2
interfaces and within any of the 16 access point WLANs. An additional default action is also available
denying traffic when filter rules fail. Lastly, imported and exported configurations retain their defined
IP filtering configurations.
IP filtering is a network layer facility. The IP filtering mechanism does not know anything about the
application using the network connections, only the connections themselves. For example, you can
deny user access to an internal network on the default telnet port, but if you rely on IP filtering alone,
you cannot stop people from using the telnet program with a port you allow to pass through your
firewall.
There are a couple of important rules a packet adheres to when its compared with the filter policy list:
• Packets are always filtered in sequential order (filtering always begins with the first filter
policy displayed in the IP Filtering screen, then the second, third, and so on). The
screen is invoked for LANs within the LAN1 or LAN2 screen and for WLANs within the New
WLAN or Edit WLAN screen. It's from this screen that allow or deny designations are set for
IP filtering.
Password (Simple Authentication)
button to return to the Router screen. From there, click
Key #1 field (Key #2 is optional).
MD5 ID area. Enter a string consisting
MD5 Auth Key area.
Network Management
area.
Apply to save the
IP Filtering
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