User's Manual

Chapter 6: Configure 71
When a wireless client is not allowed to associate with the wireless
network, it cannot:
• Connect to the base station.
• Communicate with any wired or wireless clients on the network.
• Connect to the Internet.
To enable association control
1. Open the Base Station Management Tool, and then click
Security.
2. On the Security menu, click MAC Filtering.
3. Select the Enable association control check box.
4. If you do not want unspecified wireless clients to establish a
wireless link with the base station, in the drop-down list box,
click Deny. In this case, any wireless client whose MAC address
is not listed in the MAC Address table will not be able to
associate with the base station, access the Internet, or
communicate with clients on the network.
5. If you clicked Deny in step 4, in the MAC Address table, specify
the MAC address of any wireless clients that you want to
connect to the base station, and then select the Allow
Association check box.
6. To save your changes, click Apply.
For more information about MAC filtering options, see the
Broadband Network Utility Help.
Client Filtering
You can use client filtering to control the Internet access of each
client on your network. This feature is particularly useful if, for
example, you want to restrict the time that your children spend
surfing the Web.
To configure client filtering, you must have the following
information:
• The private IP address assigned to the client computer. To
determine the IP address assigned to the client computer,
check the DHCP client list on the Home page of the Base
Station Management Tool.
• The ports for the type of application data to which you want to
control access.
For example, if you want to control Web browsing, you specify TCP
Port 80 on client 192.168.2.XX.
It is recommended that you assign static IP addresses to each of
the client devices whose access to the Internet you want to control.
Note
If you set the Broadband
Networking Wireless Base
Station to bridging mode, the
client filtering settings in the
Base Station Management
Tool will be unavailable.