Mac Filtering - Edimax EW-7415PDn User Manual

2-9 MAC Filtering

Another security measure you can use to keep hackers and intruders away is 'MAC filtering'.
You can pre-define a so-called 'white-list', which contains MAC addresses of the wireless
clients you trust. All other wireless client with the MAC address which is not in your list will
be denied by this wireless access point.
To setup MAC filtering, please click 'MAC Filtering' on the left of web management
interface and the following messages will be displayed:
This page contains two parts of MAC filtering information. All allowed MAC addresses will
be listed in upper part (1), and you can add new MAC addresses by components in lower
part (2).
Here are descriptions of every setup item:
Select
Delete Selected
Delete All
Reset
Enable Wireless
Access Control
MAC address
Check this box to select one or more MAC
address(es) to delete.
Click this button to delete all selected MAC
address(es).
Delete all MAC address entries.
Uncheck all selected MAC address entries.
Check this box to enable MAC address restriction,
if unchecked, no restriction will be enforced (any
wireless client with proper encryption setting will
be able to connect to this wireless access point).
Input MAC address allowed using this wireless
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Address
filtering
table (1)
Add
new entry
here (2)