Chapter 7 Wireless
WX Series User’s Guide
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7.4 MAC Authentication
This screen allows you to configure the WX Device to give exclusive access to specific devices (Allow) or
exclude specific devices from accessing the WX Device (Deny) based on the device(s) MAC address.
Every Ethernet device has a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address. It is assigned at the factory
and consists of six pairs of hexadecimal characters; for example, 00:A0:C5:00:00:02. You need to know
the MAC addresses of the device(s) you want to allow/deny to configure this screen.
Note: You can have up to 25 MAC authentication rules.
Use this screen to view your WX Device’s MAC filter settings and add new MAC filter rules. Click Network
Access Scenario If you select Home Guest, clients can connect to each other directly.
If you select External Guest, clients are blocked from connecting to each other directly.
BSSID This shows the MAC address of the wireless interface on the WX Device when WiFi is enabled.
Security Level Select More Secure (Recommended) to add security on this wireless network. The wireless clients
which want to associate to this network must have the same wireless security settings as the WX
Device. After you select to use a security, additional options appears in this screen.
Or you can select No Security to allow any client to associate this network without any data
encryption or authentication.
See Section 7.2.1 on page 96 for more details about this field.
Security Mode
Select the security mode the WX Device uses.
Select WPA2-PSK, WPA3-SAE or WPA3-SAE/WPA2-PSK to add security on this wireless network. The
wireless clients which want to associate to this network must have same wireless security settings
as this device. Or you can select No Security to allow any client to associate this network without
authentication..
Generate
password
automatically
Select this option to have the WX Device automatically generate a password. The password
field will not be configurable when you select this option.
Password WPA2-PSK uses a simple common password, instead of user-specific credentials.
If you did not select Generate password automatically, you can manually type a pre-shared key
from 8 to 64 case-sensitive keyboard characters.
Click the Eye icon to show or hide the password of your wireless network. When the Eye icon is
slashed , you’ll see the password in plain text. Otherwise, it is hidden.
Click this to show more fields in this section. Click again to hide them.
Encryption This field shows the AES type of data encryption.
Timer The Timer is the rate at which the RADIUS server sends a new group key out to all clients.
Cancel Click Cancel to exit this screen without saving any changes.
OK Click OK to save your changes.
Table 23 Network Setting > Wireless > Guest/More AP > Edit (continued)
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