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Edimax Technology BR-6424n User Manual

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3-5-2-3 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.

3-5-2-3-1 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 your network.


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
to the network; if you select allow, only MAC
addresses listed in filtering table will be able to
connect to the network, and rejecting all other