Allied Telesis AT-WA7500 - Manual (Page 64)

3 - Configuring the Ethernet Network
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3. Enter up to 20 MAC addresses. MAC addresses consist of six hex pairs
that are separated by spaces, colons, or hyphens.
4. Select Submit Changes to save your changes. To activate your
changes, select Save/Discard Changes from the menu bar then Save
Changes and Reboot. For help, see Saving Configuration Changes
on page 41.
Configuring
Ethernet Filters
You can set both Ethernet and IP tunnel filters, and you can create
protocol filters for both predefined and user-defined protocol types. In
addition, you can define arbitrary frame filters based on frame content.
Setting Ethernet filters prevents the Ethernet port from sending out
unnecessary traffic to the wireless network.
Ethernet frame type filter and predefined subtype filter settings override
customizable subtype filter settings. However, Allied Telesyn
recommends that when creating customizable subtype filters, you do
not duplicate existing frame type or predefined subtype filters or
unexpected results may occur.
For more examples of using Ethernet filters and for help configuring IP
filters, see Configuring IP Tunnels on page 124.
Using Ethernet
Frame Type
Filters
You can define filters for common networking protocols such as IP,
Novell IPX, and 802.2 LLC. You can also set filters that will pass only those
Ethernet frame types found on your network.
You can set the default action for general and specific frame types. For
example, you can not pass the DIX-Other EtherTypes frame parameter,
and then use the subtype menus to pass only those specific DIX types
that are used in your radio network.
You can also set the scope for general and specific frame types. For
example, for DIX-IP-TCP ports, you can not pass all frame types. Then, all
IP frames with the TCP type will be dropped even if specific TCP parts are
set to pass in the subtype menus.
Here is the action and scope you can set for each parameter:
Allow/ Pass
Check or clear this check box. Check the check box to pass all frames of
that type. Clear the check box to drop all frames of that type.
Scope
Set scope to Unlisted or All. If you select All, then all frames of that type
are unconditionally passed or dropped, depending on the action you
specified. If you select Unlisted, then frames are passed or dropped only
if the frame type is not listed in the predefined or customizable tables.