Atop Technology AW5500C User manual - Manual (Page 52)

Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point
AW5500C
User Manual V. 1.0
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4.9 Firewall & Filtering
The following section deals with configuration for the network’s firewall as well as its
packet filtering. Available criteria for packet filtering are based on MAC address (Wired or
Wireless), Ethernet packet, and IP address. These filtering methods provide security,
preventing unauthorized or malicious packets an entrance to your network.
Data packets will be filtered (classified) as either “allowed packets” or “denied packets”;
the “allowed packets” mode is more commonly known as the “whitelist” and the “denied
packets” mode is known as the blacklist. We highly encourage you to be extremely
careful on this section as data that doesn’t fit into any of those criteria will be discarded
with the potential outcome of letting the AW5500C as inaccessible if not configured
properly. If the latter happens, you will need to reset the device back to its default by any of
the methods described in Reboot and Restore Default Settings