Firewall; Access Control - Edimax BR-622nC User Manual

3‐6 Firewall
This broadband router supports several firewall functions which will help you to protect
your network and computer. In this chapter, instructions for using these functions will be
given, so you can utilize these functions to protect your network from hackers and malicious
intruders.
3‐6‐1 Access Control
By using access control, you can restrict your computers from accessing improper website,
or using disallowed applications. You can even only allow computers with certain MAC
address to access the network, or deny the computers in the list from accessing Internet.
MAC Filtering: Deny or allow access based on MAC address of client computer
Here are descriptions of every setup items:
Item Name
Enable MAC Filtering
Client PC MAC address Please input the MAC address of computer or
Description
Check this box to enable MAC address based
filtering, and please select 'Deny' or 'Allow' to
decide the behavior of MAC filtering table. If
you select deny, all MAC addresses listed in
filtering table will be denied from connecting
Internet; if you select allow, only MAC
addresses listed in filtering table will be able to
connect to Internet.
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