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Port Forwarding

Port Forwarding

Port forwarding enables application traffic through the firewall of your Ruckus Wireless Router to one of

the computers in your home. Ordinarily, the router blocks incoming traffic as a security protection, but if you

want other computers to be able to initiate communications with yours, you need to set up port forwarding.

In most cases, such as for web browsing, sending e-mail, or any other activity where your computer initiates

the communication, you don't need to set up port forwarding. You only need it when another computer, from

elsewhere "on the Internet", initiates the communications, or when you are operating a service, such as a web

server or an e-mail server, of your own.

Other examples include multi-player Internet game playing, participating in meetings using Microsoft's

NetMeeting™, or the various instant messaging protocols (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, etc.).

The Port Forwarding Table contains the following columns:

•

Name

of the application or service. The name must be unique.

•

Start port

and

End port

: the starting port and ending (or listening) port on both ends of the

transmission

•

Protocol

for the transmission. Select either TCP, or UDP, or BOTH.

•

IP Address

of the server accepting the transmission; this is your server.

•

Enable

/

Disable

/

Delete

Figure 46—

Configure :: Por Forwarding page

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Adding Entries to the Port Forwarding Table

To add a new port-forwarding entry, click

Add new entry

at the bottom of the table. Fill in all the fields and

click

Update

.

Figure 47—

Port Forwarding add a new entry options

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Access Controls

Access Controls

Access Controls give you control over which stations are allowed to join (associate with) your WLAN

networks.

Figure 48—

Configuring Access Controls main page

Access Controls Options

Disabling WLAN access restrictions

If you select "Disable WLAN access restrictions", then MAC-address-based restrictions on which stations

can join the WLAN are disabled; thus, any station can join. If the WLAN uses encryption, then the station

must still supply the correct encryption pass-phrase.

The Access Controls table is hidden if the current mode is "Disable WLAN access restrictions".

Allowing only stations explicitly listed in the Access Controls Table

If you select "Allow only stations listed in the Access Controls Table", then stations entered into the

access-controls table are allowed but all others are disallowed. To add MAC addresses, see

"Changing

Access Controls" on page 58

.

Denying only stations explicitly listed in the Access Controls Table

If you select "Deny only stations listed in the Access Controls Table", then stations entered into the

access-controls table are disallowed but all others are allowed. To add MAC addresses, see

"Changing

Access Controls" on page 58

.

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Changing Access Controls

1.

Open the Web User interface, and click

Access Controls

under Configuration.

2.

Select the radio button for the desired access control. (For a description of the options, see

"Access Controls

Options" on page 57

.) The Access Controls Table appears [with no entries].

.

Figure 49—

Access Controls allow settings

3.

Click the

Add new entry

button to add a MAC address to the table.

Figure 50—

Access controls: adding an entry

4.

Type the MAC address in the spaces provided.

5.

Click the

Update

button to save your changes. Assuming all parameters you entered are acceptable, that value

will be added to the table.

6.

If you have additional MAC addresses you want included, click

Add new entry

and repeat these steps until

you've entered all the stations you want. There is a limit of 128 rows.

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Access Control Table Columns

The Access Control Table, as seen in

Figure 49

and

Figure 50

, contains the following columns:

•

Address

: Six text boxes appear in which you enter the desired MAC address in hexadecimal digit

form, two characters in each box. You can specify a full 12-hex-digit MAC address or enter

"wildcard" characters for "don't care" digits. Allowable hex-digit characters are 0-9, a-f, and A-F.

Most address-tags and software where you find MAC addresses listed include colons or dashes to

separate the address-pairs; that is provided for you on the page, so do not enter the colons or dashes.

The wildcard characters are "x", "X" and blank (space character). Wildcards are useful when you want

to specify all MAC addresses from a given manufacturer. Thus for example, by specifying only the

Organizationally Unique Identifier (the first six hexadecimal digits of any MAC address from that

manufacturer is its OUI) saves you having to enter all 24 million of them (the table size is limited in the

AP/Router to 128 entries). Some manufacturers produce devices using more than one OUI, in which

case you may need to enter each applicable one.

•

Remove

: Check the 'Remove' box for any row(s) you no longer want used.

Removing MAC Addresses from a List

Simply check the box under the Remove column for the MAC address entry(ies) you want to remove from

the table and click

Update

.

Showing/Hiding Locally Known MAC Addresses

The AP/Router "knows" the MAC addresses of devices in the local network and this information can be

shown by clicking the "Show locally-known MAC addresses" link. It will disappear when you click "Hide

locally-known MAC addresses". By default, the "Remove" box is checked in each of these. Un-check it for

those devices you want included in the table. When you click

Update

, only entries in the table whose

“Remove” checkbox is un-checked will be included in the Access Controls table.

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