Mac address filter – Billion Electric Company BIPAC 8500 User Manual

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Billion BIPAC-8500 / 8520 SHDSL VPN Firewall Bridge / Router

Chapter 4: Configuration

MAC Address Filter

A MAC (Media Access Control) address is the unique network hardware identifier for each
PC on your network’s interface (i.e. its Network Interface Card or Ethernet card). Using
your router’s MAC Address Filter function, you can configure the switch to only accept
traffic from specified machines, or else to block specific machines from accessing your
LAN.

There are no pre-defined MAC address filter rules; you can add the filter rules to meet
your requirements

Enable/Disable:

To enable or disable the MAC Address Filter function.

Allowed/Blocked:

To allow or block the following MAC addresses to surf outside network

only. If you check Allowed, please be sure your PC’s MAC address is listed. If you check
Blocked

, please be sure your PC’s MAC address is not listed.

MAC Address:

There are 10 entries to enter the MAC addresses you want manage.