User's Manual

70 Microsoft Broadband Networking Base Station User’s Guide
• Connect to the Internet.
• Communicate with wireless clients on the network.
When a wireless client is denied association control, it cannot
connect to the base station, so connection control is irrelevant. For
information about using MAC filtering to control the access of
wireless clients, see “Association Control.”
To enable connection control
1. Open the Base Station Management Tool, and then click
Security.
2. On the Security menu, click MAC Filtering.
3. Select the Enable connection control check box.
4. If you do not want unspecified clients to connect to the base
station, in the drop-down list box, click Deny. In this case, any
client whose MAC address is not listed in the MAC Address table
will not be able to connect to the base station or access the
Internet.
5. If you clicked Deny in step 4, in the MAC Address table, specify
the MAC address of any clients that you want to connect to the
base station, and then select the Allow Connection check box.
6. To save your changes, click Apply.
When you enable connection control, be sure you do not prohibit
your own computer from connecting to the base station. If you deny
unspecified MAC addresses from connecting, type the MAC
address of your adapter into the MAC Address table and select the
connection control check box.
If you do block your own access to the base station, you must
restore the factory default settings by using the reset button on the
physical device, and then reconfigure the base station. For
information about how to do this, see “Resetting the Base Station”
in Chapter 1.
Association Control
You can use association control to control which wireless clients
can establish a wireless link with the base station. Association
control is not applicable to wired clients.
When a wireless client is allowed to associate with the wireless
network and connect to the base station, it has full access to the
Internet and network resources.
When a wireless client is allowed to associate with the wireless
network, but not connect to the base station, it can communicate
with other clients on the wireless network, but it cannot
communicate with wired clients on the network or connect to the
Internet.