Re: Wireless MAC address filtering
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Posted by ps56k on May 27, 2008, 5:50 pm
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followup there....
Roger Mills wrote: > In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> >> My older Linksys wireless AP router can only do WEP security, so when
>> I got my new HP laptop with built-in WiFi I decided to add wireless >> MAC address filtering to my router. After some unsuccessful search >> for the laptop's WiFi MAC address, I discovered that my router can >> actually display the active MAC addresses even if the filtering is >> not set. Then I went ahead and wrote that MAC address into the filter >> list and enabled filtering. All that accomplished was that my laptop >> got disconnected from the WiFi network. I also have a wireless >> Internet webcam and that could not connect with MAC filtereing as >> well, even though its MAC address was entered in the filter list. >> >> I tried to restart the router, the laptop and the webcam but that >> would not help the situation. I could only connect them to the router >> with disabled MAC filtering. >> >> Has any of you successfully added MAC address filtering into their >> wireless home network? >> If so, what am I missing? >> >> DB >
> Sounds like you've set it up to *deny* the specified addresses and > allow everything else, rather than vice versa. My 3Com router config > allows either - perhaps yours does, and you've gone for the wrong > option? -- > Cheers, > Roger What Linksys AP do you have ? I'm running an old BEFSX41 router along with a WAP54G access point - using MAC filtering - for all desktops, laptops, Tivo, Xbox, etc | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Dabbler on May 27, 2008, 7:13 pm
Please log in for more thread options > What Linksys AP do you have ?
BEFW11S4 Ver. 2. > I'm running an old BEFSX41 router
> along with a WAP54G access point - using MAC filtering - > for all desktops, laptops, Tivo, Xbox, etc I kinda' feel stupid because Roger and Dave were right. Next to each MAC address entry in the list there is a check box column, titled "Filter" and I checked those boxes. That effectively filtered those devices OUT instead of what I intended. Though admitting my stupidity here, I also think that calling those check boxes simply "Filter" can cause some misunderstanding for people who don't use these kinds of things very often. I also realize that adding those MAC addresses does not provide fullproof WiFi security but I feel it's still better than not to do it. It is an additional hurdle a cracker might not bother to go through when he can find easier targets around. Thanks, guys, for pointing me to the right direction. DB | |||||||||||||
