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Peter_Mc
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12 months ago
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Mac Filtering Ethernet Port

Hi All,

I’m currently installing Outdoor Wireless Access Point by Ethernet cable for a friend and want to eliminate anyone simply plugging the Ethernet cable into a laptop device to gain access to the network.

I know it’s possible to filter MAC addresses by WIFI but is it possible to set-up one of the Ethernet ports on the VM router so only the access point MAC address can access the network and all other MAC addresses are blocked?

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    Client62
    12 months ago

    What you suggest is not possible on a VM Hub.

    But if it was and one could granted access for just one MAC on a specific network port, I believe that would block all the traffic from all of the external AP's Wi-Fi clients ( each Wi-Fi client has its own MAC / own Random MAC ).

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    Client62
    Alessandro Volta
    12 months ago

    What you suggest is not possible on a VM Hub.

    But if it was and one could granted access for just one MAC on a specific network port, I believe that would block all the traffic from all of the external AP's Wi-Fi clients ( each Wi-Fi client has its own MAC / own Random MAC ).

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      Peter_Mc
      Tuning in
      12 months ago

      Thanks for the reply, I didn’t think about that but that issue could be easily rectified with whitelisting the devices MAC’s on VM Hub that connect to Wireless AP (main purpose is for a couple Wireless security camera’s to connect to it)

      A shame the VM Hub cannot manage Ethernet ports / have an option to block all unknown MAC addresses for extra layer of security 

      I appreciate the reply.

      Many thanks