3 firewall – Manhattan 525480 150N Wireless Router - Manual User Manual

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ADVANCED FUNCTIONS

3.3 Firewall

In addition to the NAT feature, this router provides firewall functionality to block

malicious intruders from accessing the computers on your local network. Click the

“Firewall” menu on the left of the Web management interface.

Firewall Module — Check to enable this function; uncheck to disable.

3.3.1 Access Control
This function allows or denies computers with a specific MAC address — or a

specific IP address, protocol or port — access to the network.
Enable MAC Filtering — Check this box to enable MAC address-based filtering,

and select “Deny” or “Allow” to determine the behavior of the MAC filtering table.

If you select “Deny,” all MAC addresses listed in the filtering table will be denied

access to the network; if you select “Allow,” only MAC addresses listed in the

filtering table will be able to connect to the network, and all other network devices

will be rejected.

Client PC MAC address — Enter the MAC address of the computer or network

device. Dashes (–) or colons ( : ) are not required. For example, if the MAC

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