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Blokkeer toestel op basis van MAC adres op
Heeft iemand een idee hoe je ervoor,kan zorgen dat enkel de toestellen waarvan je het MAC adres ingeeft ook toegang kunnen krijgen tot netwerk? op mijn vorige router, de R7000, kon je toestellen ...
What a shame!
In the actual world, is all network related to security.
So access control is at least a minimum requirement that should be available.
For this device I paid over 400 EUR to detect now that such a basic service is not available.
I really hope that this functionality will become part of one of the first upcoming firmware updates.
Please inform me if this functionality will become part of the roadmap for one of the upcoming firmware upgrades.
Regards,
Kris.
I'm sure this is something we could add, I will inform the team and see if they could implement it in the future.
Looking forward to get an estimation before when this "basic" functionality becomes available. Till than, I'm running on high risk as even my son of 16 years old is able to make abuse of this gap.
- What is your use case? Perhaps I can suggest some alternative solutions that would help.
My use case is very simple.
I do not want to allow any unknown device on my network.
So all WiFi devices that are connected to my network are registered into a database together with their MAC address.
Based upon that MAC address I assign them a fixed IP address.
Together with this IP address I've aranged a scheme so that my kids are not able to go on the internet between 10h00PM and 07.00 AM.
With my pervious router the R7000 I was able to block every unkown device. As my oldest sun, is sharing some internet devices with his friends, he is able to bypass this configuration as the R700 router is not able to deny access to unknown devices. Moreover even if I change the password of my network to a very deficult password, he is able to retrieve this information somewhere (and certainly not from my database). I beleive that apple is storing somewhere the passwords of the routers and that he is able to read them somewhere on his Apple PC.So the best way would be, that access control (which is available in the cheapest routers) will also become available on this expensive router (>400 EUR).