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Figure 34. WPS Setup Menu

By default, WPS is disabled. If you select

ENABLE

and click

Apply

, the options in Figure 35

are displayed. Table 13 describes the options shown.

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Figure 35. WPS Setup Menu with WPS Config Enabled

Table 13. WPS Summary and WPS Progress Options

Option

Description

WPS Config

Enables or disables the Gateway’s WPS setup.

•

ENABLE = Gateway’s WPS setup is available. (

default

)

•

DISABLE = Gateway’s WPS setup is unavailable.

WPS Summary

WPS Current Status

A read-only field that shows whether WPS is currently being used.

WPS Configured

A read-only field that whether WPS has been configured.

AP PIN

A read-only field that shows the personal identification number (PIN) for the access point.

WPS Progress

WPS mode

Determines whether WPS can be configured using a PIN or the

WPS

button on the front panel of the

Gateway.

•

PIN = requires you to enter a PIN in the WPS Setup menu to configure WPS.

•

PBC = Push Button Configuration. Lets you use the

WPS

button on the front panel of the Gateway

to configure WPS.

WPS PIN

If PIN was selected for WPS mode, enter the PIN required to enable WPS. The PIN must be 8 alpha-

numeric characters long.

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MAC Filtering

Using the MAC Filtering menu, you can define up to 16 MAC address filters to prevent PCs

from sending outgoing TCP/UDP traffic to the WAN via their MAC addresses. This is useful

because a specific NIC’s MAC address never changes, unlike its IP address, which can be

assigned by a DHCP server or hard-coded to various addresses over time.

The MAC Filtering menu allows wireless client stations to connect over a wireless

connection in two ways:

y

By allowing all wireless station access.

y

By allowing only trusted PCs.

To access the MAC Filtering menu, click

Wireless

in the menu bar and then click the

MAC

Filtering

submenu. Figure 36 shows an example of the menu and Table 14 describes the

settings you can select.

Note:

The

MAC Filtering

submenu is not available in the menu bar if wireless operation is

disabled in the Wireless Basic Settings menu (see page 54).

Figure 36. MAC Filtering Menu

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Table 14. MAC Filtering Options

Option

Description

SSID

Network name of the of the primary wireless carrier.

MAC Filtering Mode

Determines which wireless client stations can connect to the Gateway. The choices are:

•

Allow- All = all wireless client stations can connect to the Gateway. (

default

)

•

Allow = allow only the wireless client stations in the MAC filter table to connect to the Gateway.

•

Deny = no wireless client stations can connect to the Gateway.

Wireless Control List

Shows the device name and MAC address of up to 16 devices that you manually added to the MAC filter

table. To delete a device, click the radio button to the left of the device you want to delete and click the

Delete

button. A precautionary message does not appear before deleting the MAC address, so be sure

you do not need the MAC address before deleting it.

Auto-Learned Wireless

Devices

Shows the wireless devices whose presence the Gateway has automatically learned.

Manually-Added

Wireless Devices

Enter a unique name and MAC address of the wireless devices that you want to manually add to the

Wireless Control List (MAC filter table). Click

Add

to add the device to the Wireless Control List.

Adding and Deleting Wireless Client Stations

To allow wireless client stations to access the Internet through the Gateway, use the

following procedure to define up to 16 wireless client stations.

1. To add wireless client stations that the Gateway automatically learned on the network,

perform the following steps under

Auto-Learned Lan Devices

:

a. Click a wireless client station that the Gateway learned automatically.

b. Click

Add

. The wireless client station is added to the

Wireless Control List

.

c. To add more auto-learned wireless client stations (up to 16), repeat steps 1a and 1b.

2. To manually add wireless client stations, perform the following steps under

Manually-

Added Wireless Devices

:

a. Under

Device Name

, enter a unique name for the device (that is, a name that does not

already appear in the

Wireless Control List

).

b. Under

MAC Address

, enter the MAC address of the device.

c. Click

Add

to add the wireless client station to the

Wireless Control List

.

d. To manually add more wireless client stations (up to 16), repeat steps 2a through 2c.

3. To delete wireless client stations from the

Wireless Control List

,. click the radio button

corresponding to the wireless client station you want to delete and click the

Delete

button.

A precautionary message does not appear before deleting a wireless client station.

4. When you finish, click

Apply

.

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Advanced Wireless Settings Menu

Using the Advanced Wireless Settings menu, you can configure advanced wireless settings

for the Gateway.

To access the Advanced Wireless Settings menu, click

Wireless

in the menu bar and then

click the

Advanced Wireless Settings

submenu. Figure 37 shows an example of the menu

and Table 15 describes the settings you can select.

Note:

The

Advanced Wireless Settings

submenu is not available in the menu bar if wireless

operation is disabled in the Wireless Basic Settings menu (see page 54).

Figure 37. Wireless Advanced Settings Menu