B Mac Control 1 - M2M IDG500AM-0T001 User Manual

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5.1.b MAC Control
"MAC Control" function allows you to assign the accessibility to the gateway for different users
based on device's MAC address, including wired hosts or WiFi stations.
In "MAC Control" page, there are three configuration windows for MAC control function. They are
the "Configuration" window, "MAC Control Rule List" window, and "MAC Control Rule
Configuration" window.
The "Configuration" window can let you activate the MAC Control function and specify to black
listing or to white listing the devices in the "MAC Control Rule List" entry. Furthermore, log
alerting can be enabled through an "Enable" checkbox to log events. Another "Known MAC from
LAN PC List" is a tool that you can use to do quick copy the known MAC address of client hosts in
the Intranet to facilitate creating rules. Use the "Copy to" button to copy. Second, the "MAC
Control Rule List" window lists all your defined MAC control rule entry. At last, the "MAC Control
Rule Configuration" window can let you define one MAC control rule.
Configuration
Check the "Enable" box to activate the "MAC Control" function. Select either the black list or the
white list for following "MAC Control Rule List". Finally, enable the log alerting during MAC
controlling process when needed.
When you choose "Allow all to pass except those match the following rules" for the "MAC Control
Rule List", you are setting the defined MAC control rules to belong to the black list. The client
hosts, listed in the rule list, in the Intranet will be rejected for the connection to the gateway if
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