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Why the Repeater's MAC Address not the LAPTOP's?
bench <bench.1mmszm@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote in
news:bench.1mmszm@WiFi-Forum_dot_com: > I'm using a DWL-G710 dlink repeater with DWL-7200AP dlink access Not entirely sure I understand what the problem is...> point. Network diagram is: laptop -> repeater -> access point -> > router -> internet > Our router requires the MAC addresses of multiplelaptops > connecting to the repeater for access monitoring but for some > reason the router sees the MAC address of the repeater. Is this a > problem with the repeater? If you are using MAC address filtering, then you need to specify all the MAC addresses that appear in the wireless traffic. A repeater is an implementation of WDS (Wireless Distribution System) described in IEEE 802.11, and the MAC frames in such a link have 4 address fields. The are (informally) the original transmitter and the final recipient, and the transmitter/receiver of the current intermediate hop [1]. So to get MAC address filtering to work you will need to specify the MAC address of both the laptop ans the repeater. Hope this helps [1] More formally, the MAC addresses are: DA Destination Address SA Source Address RA Receiver Address TA Transmitter Address -- Richard Perkin To email me, change the AT in the address below richard.perkinATmyrealbox.com It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs. -- Oxford University Press, Edpress News |
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