Mac Filtering Ethernet Port

[Peter_Mc]

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?

[Client62 · Accepted solution]

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 ).

[Peter_Mc]

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