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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point
AW5500
User Manual V. 1.3
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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 AW5500 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.