Enabling MAC Address Filtering

To enable MAC address flitering, you do not need to do anything on the computers with wireless NICs (or wireless devices) on the network. For the wireless router, it takes a couple steps.

First, make sure all the computers with wireless NICs (and devices) are configured for the wireless network (see Chapter 8, “Wireless NIC Setup”) and the other security measures have been successfully turned on (see Chapter 9).

Then, access the router using your Internet browser as you have done before and perform the following steps:

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You will want to perform these steps from a computer that has a wired, not wireless, connection ...

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