04-13-2012 12:40 AM
Hello guys,
I have gone through the data sheet of WAP4410N,bu have got nothing about the scalability of MAC address filter on WAP4410N?
BR,
Hao
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04-19-2012 06:55 AM
Hi, My name is Eric Moyers. I am a Network Support Engineer in the Cisco Small Business Support Center. Thank you for using the Cisco Community Post Forums.
Currently the MAC address filtering is limited to 20. I can check on this for you to see if there is any way to increase, however if I remember correctly there is not. I will be in touch soon.
Thanks
Eric Moyers
Cisco Network Support Engineer
SBSC Wireless and Surveillance SME
CCNA, CCNA-Wireless
1-866-606-1866
04-19-2012 06:55 AM
Hi, My name is Eric Moyers. I am a Network Support Engineer in the Cisco Small Business Support Center. Thank you for using the Cisco Community Post Forums.
Currently the MAC address filtering is limited to 20. I can check on this for you to see if there is any way to increase, however if I remember correctly there is not. I will be in touch soon.
Thanks
Eric Moyers
Cisco Network Support Engineer
SBSC Wireless and Surveillance SME
CCNA, CCNA-Wireless
1-866-606-1866
01-08-2015 03:32 AM
Hello sir,
So what is the conclusion? Is there any possibility to increase MAC address filtering limit for this model?
Thanks.
01-11-2015 02:20 AM
I hope this is only GUI software limitation on WAP and not system backend limitation. If you need to use more than 20 entries, you can add them via CLI - there is no limitation (but it could be - you can test it).
get list of related ACL configuration with: nvram show | grep acl_list
- copy existing MAC list into test variable:
testMACLIST=`nvram show | grep wlan0_ssid0_acl_list | cut -d"=" -f2`
- and update wlan0_ssid0_acl_list with existing list and new MAC following way:
nvram set wlan0_ssid0_acl_list=${testMACLIST}AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:11,unknown,1\;
...where AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:11,unknown,1\; is new entry with required formatting. Only MAC address varies, the rest - ,unknown,1\; - needs to be kept like it is.
- you can confirm if the list is updated with command:
nvram show | grep wlan0_ssid0_acl_list
And finally: to make this change permanent (f.e.after unit reboot) you have to save configuration with:
nvram commit
I am not sure if unit reboot is necessary after this configuration change, maybe it is and you can do it from CLI with command:
reboot
Yes, it is not user friendly, but I hope it will work as this is alternative (but not officially supported) configuration mode. Secondly - all further updates to MAC list needs to be done only via CLI (as GUI will always count only with 20 entries).
enjoy!
01-11-2015 02:24 AM
The second option how to overcome GUI limitation of 20 entries is to create another SSID with different name (but with same other NW-related settings) and with another 20 entries that you can use. Yes, you have to tell new users to connect to another (second) SSID instead of first one - but this is the only drawback.
On WAP4410N units you can have have four SSIDs in total - this increases number managed MAC addresses to 80.
01-13-2015 01:30 AM
Thanks Michal,
Just tested your CLI workaround example and works just great on my WAP device. You need a device reboot after adding the new MAC addresses though, but that's fine. Thank you very much!
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