In the MAC address text box, type the MAC address of a wireless client that is allowed access to your APs.

In the Allowed MAC Addresses section, click Add.

The Add a MAC Address dialog box appears. The Settings dialog box appears, with the Access Point Settings tab selected. The Gateway Wireless Controller dialog box appears, with the SSIDs tab selected. To delete a MAC address from either list, select one or more MAC addresses and click Remove. The MAC address is added to the Allowed MAC Addresses list.

In the MAC address text box, type the MAC address of a wireless client that you want to allow access to your APs.

In the Allowed MAC Addresses list section, click Add.The MAC address is added to the Denied MAC Addresses list. (Optional) In the Name text box, type a descriptive name to identify the wireless client in the list.In the MAC address text box, type the MAC address of a wireless client that you want to deny access to your APs.In the Denied MAC Addresses section, click Add.The MAC Access Control settings appear at the bottom. The Gateway Wireless Controller page appears.

Select Network > Gateway Wireless Controller.If you configure an SSID to use the Allowed MAC Addresses list, only wireless clients with MAC addresses that are on this list can connect to that SSID. To enable certain wireless clients to connect to your AP, you can add the MAC addresses those wireless clients to the Allowed MAC Addresses list. If you configure an SSID to use the Denied MAC Addresses list, any wireless clients with MAC addresses that are on this list are not allowed to connect to that SSID. To make sure certain wireless clients cannot connect to your AP, you can add the MAC addresses of those wireless clients to the Denied MAC Addresses list. There are two types of MAC access control lists: We recommend that you limit the total number of denied and allowed MAC addresses to 50 addresses to avoid performance issues. The maximum number of denied and allowed MAC addresses is 256. Then, you can configure each SSID to use one of these lists to control wireless client access to your network. You can configure a list of denied and allowed MAC addresses in the Gateway Wireless Controller. You can configure the MAC access control lists to allow or deny wireless client connections based on the MAC addresses of the client devices.

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