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Limit access to internet to specific MAC addresses on the LAN
I spend half an hour to write something, just to waste everything after changing the kind of text format from RTF to HTML. :-( How can I setup a time delimited access to some machines on the LAN limi...
Suggestion : use Block Services (Advanced > Security > Block Services) Schedule > ALL service > select the specific IP you want to block Schedule tab is where to set to the time frame you want to block the service I also suggest you set IP reservation for the MAC address so the IP doesn't change.
- Let make things more practical ...
For example ...
From Monday to Friday the computer with MAC address xxx could go on internet from 5 PM to 10 PM limiting the total connection time to 2 hours and 5 minutes maximum.
Saturday and Sunday the same computer could connect from 4 PM to 11 PM limiting the total time to 2 hours and 35 minutes.
I got the possibility to make lot of this policies based on MAC address, day and hours and cumulative timing. It was a simple matter of copy the MAC address and make another 2 - 3 selections and ... voilà ... the new rule was ready to use.
But now? What you tell is not so practical nor elegant solution.
I think that should be a manner to make rules like this. Maybe digging deeper with a command line utility, but I bought this router to limit the access to my son and discovered that this is not possible the way I supposed to be.unless you try the suggestion i told you then you wont see that the concept is the same. You may just have to configure 3 settings
1. IP reservation - where your MAC address is bind to your IP address
2. Block services - where you configure the service and the IP to be filtered
3. Schedule - the timeframe you want to set
What you want is not possible that is why I am giving you the possibilty with the same output.
Hey, this is exactly what I'm looking for. Is that feature now available 6 years after?
what is the model number of your device?