Setting parental controls, Finding the mac address of a computer, Making your parental control settings – ARRIS DG1680A-TW Users Guide User Manual

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Chapter 4: Installing and Connecting your Data Gateway

Note: The default user name is “admin”. The default password is “password”, in lower

case letters.

4. Enter the user name and password and click the Apply button to log in.

The System Basic Setup screen displays.

5. Use the online help information to set configuration parameters as required.

Note: Most configuration parameters that you may want to set can be accessed on the

System Basic Setup screen, including the security mode and setting a system password.

Setting Parental Controls

The Parental Control feature allows you to block specified keywords and web sites from

being accessed and also to specify trusted computers in the network. Trusted computers

are not affected by the parental control settings.

Finding the MAC Address of a Computer

In order to set up trusted computers you must first determine the MAC address of those

computers.
Use the operating system of your computer to find its MAC address, as follows:
Windows: from the Start menu, find and select the

Control Panel

. Double-click

Network

Connections

(Windows XP), or

Network & Sharing Center

(Windows Vista or Windows 7). Then

double-click either “Wireless Network Connection” for a wireless connection, or “Local

Area Connection” for an Ethernet connection. Next click the

Details

button (Windows Vista

or Windows 7), or click the Support tab and then the

Details

button (Windows XP). The

“Physical Address” line shows the MAC address.
MacOS X: open System Preferences and click the Network icon. To find the Ethernet

MAC address, select

Built-in Ethernet

from the Show drop-down, then click the Ethernet tab.

The “Ethernet ID” field shows the MAC address. To find the wireless MAC address, select

Airport

from the Show drop-down, then click the Airport tab. The “Airport ID” field shows

the MAC address.
Linux: open a shell window and type

/sbin/ifconfig

(and press Enter). The wireless

interface is eth1 (unless there is no Ethernet adapter, in which case the interface is eth0).

Making Your Parental Control Settings

Follow these steps to set up your Parental Controls:

1. Access and log into the wireless configuration interface as explained in Accessing the

Configuration Interface.

2. Click the

Firewall

tab and then click

Parental Controls

in the side menu to display the

Parental Controls screen.

Release 16 STANDARD 1.3 March 2015

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