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Chapter 8: Protecting & Monitoring Your Wireless Network

PN 365-095-30452 x.1 SURFboard SBG7580-AC Wireless Gateway User Guide

Set Up IP Filtering

You can use IP Filtering to set up Internet access restrictions on specific network devices on

your home network using their IP addresses. You will have to create IP address filters that

contain the starting and ending IP address range of each device for which you want to block

Internet access.

To configure IP filters:

1. From any web manager screen, click the Advanced menu button on the SBG6700-AC Web

Manager main menu bar.

2. Click IP Filtering from the Advanced submenu options list to display the Advanced IP

Filtering screen.

Figure 34: Set Up IP Filters Screen

3. Enter the least significant byte of the starting IP address for the range you are setting up in

the Start Address field.

4. Enter the least significant byte of the ending IP address for the range you are setting up in

the End Address field.

5. Select Enabled to activate the IP address filter.

6. Repeat steps 3 thru 5 for each additional range of IP addresses that you want to block

Internet access.

7. Click Apply to create your IP filters.