MAC Address Filtering Troubleshooting for a Cisco 350 AP

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Good Morning,

I am able to work with the MAC Address Filter option to some degree. But I am having problem with completing this issue. I have a Cisco 350 AP device that I am using for testing address filtering. I am able to connect to the access point even though the AP device that I am using is not set to DHCP. I went into the lab AP device and specified that I only wanted my laptop MAC Address to be associated to the device. I do have other AP devices that are in working fine. To do the true test, I specified the MAC Address of my laptop, and went near another AP device to see if I could connect to that one as well. Because the premise is only to attach to the lab AP. At first it did not attach to the second AP device but when I did a Radio Off/On on the ACU it found the second AP device. Do I really have to specify each MAC Address that I don't want attaching to the AP device and the ones I do want it to attach to. Is there a easy way?

Thanks

 

[manarth]

MAC filtering is to prevent rogue machines connecting to your AP.

Are you
a) trying to ensure the only machine which can connect to your WLAN is your laptop?
b) your laptop connects only to YOUR WLAN, noone elses?

If it's a, you have to setup MAC filtering on every AP
If it's b, you'll need to suggest a unique SSID and setup all your AP's and your laptop with this.

General security tip - always setup your own SSID & WEP key; turn off SSID broadcasting on the APs. <marc>[ul]help us help![li]please provide feedback on what works / doesn't[/li][li]not sure where to start? click here: faq581-3339[/li][/sup][/ul][/sup]