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13.3.21.4 MAC Firewall Rules

Firewall
The ability to allow or deny access point connectivity by client MAC address ensures malicious or unwanted clients are unable
to bypass the access point's security filters. Firewall rules can be created to support one of the three actions listed below that
match the rule's criteria:
• Allow a connection
• Allow a connection only if it's secured through the MAC firewall security
• Block a connection
To view the access point's MAC Firewall Rules:
1. Select the Statistics
2. Select System
connected access points.
3. Select Firewall
4. Select MAC Firewall
The MAC Firewall Rules
Precedence
menu from the Web UI.
from the navigation pane (on the left-hand side of the screen). Expand a RF Domain and select one of its
and expand the menu to reveal its sub menu
Rules.
Figure 13-71 Access Point - Firewall MAC Firewall Rules screen
screen displays the following information:
Displays the precedence value, which are applied to packets. The rules within an Access
Control Entries (ACL) list are based on their precedence values. Every rule has a unique
precedence value between 1 and 5000. You cannot add two rules with the same precedence
value.
items.