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3-7 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. 3-7-1 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 Computer Name 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. Please input the MAC address of computer or network device here, dash ( - ) or colon ( : ) are not required. (i.e. If the MAC address label of your wireless device indicates 'aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff' or 'aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff', just input 'aabbccddeeff' All computer names found by this broadband 106

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3-7 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.
3-7-1 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
Description
Enable MAC Filtering
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.
Client PC MAC address
Please input the MAC address of computer or
network device here, dash ( - ) or colon ( : ) are
not required. (i.e. If the MAC address label of
your wireless device indicates
‘aa
-bb-cc-dd-ee-
ff’ or ‘aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff’, just
input ‘aabbccddeeff’
Computer Name
All computer names found by this broadband