11g Wireless Security Router User Guide
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rule.
Direction:
Choose the initial network data traffic direction you wish to
block. Select “
Outbound
” to restrict the connection to the
Internet from your LAN. Select “
Inbound
” to restrict any
external connections from Internet to your LAN.
MAC:
This item allows network administrators to use the MAC
addresses of PCs to restrict users/computers from accessing
the specific application you set in this rule. A MAC address is
short for Media Access Control Address and is a hardware
address that uniquely identifies each node on network. Enter
the MAC addresses of the computers you wish to allow/block
in each field.
IP Address:
This item allows network administrators to use IP Address of
PCs to restrict users/computers from accessing the certain
applications you set in this rule. Enter the range of IP
addresses if you want them to be included in a controlled
group with the same access limitation
Note that if you set both “MAC” and “IP Address” in one rule,
the PCs which have the MAC addresses matching in “MAC”
field and their IP addresses matching in the “IP Address” field
will be allowed/blocked for certain applications.
Protocol:
Select the protocol type as
“ICMP”
,
“TCP”
or “
UDP”
from
the drop down list. If you are not sure which one to choose,
select
“All”
.
Port Number:
Enter the range of port numbers that are used by the
applications you wish to be blocked. For example, port 80
usually is used as destination port number when you access a
web page. Note that if you don’t enter any value in the
“
MAC
” and “
IP Address
” column but enter the port number,
for example “80”, in this field, it means all the users/PCs will
be allowed/denied access to certain applications related to this
port, for example “web browsing”.
Summary
Click this button to display a summary page showing all the
current rules you have set.
Apply
Click this
button after making any changes for activating the
settings.
Cancel
Click this button to exit the screen without saving any
changes.
Here is a sample of Access Control Setting. There is a PC you wish to block in your LAN
side with MAC address like
00-01-36-02-B1-4F
, and an IP Address
192.168.1.101
.
Ether the PC’s MAC address in the “
MAC
” field or the IP address included in the “
IP
Address
” range that covers this PC’s IP address. Enter the range of
20~80
in the “Port
