WN3000RP and MAC Access List

Aspirant

Jul 04, 2012

smsasaki wrote:
This is pretty simple - I don't know why Netgear doesn't document this better.

If you log iinto your WN3000RP and look at the ATTACHED DEVICES screen you will see the attached devices with MAC ADDRESSES and also VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESSES. As you can see the WN3000RP creates a VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESS for each device connected to it.

When you set up the Wireless Card Access List on your WNR834B router you will have to add the VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESSES that were listed by the WN3000RP. Your table was previously setup for the actual MAC ADDRESSES so they did not match - and the router prevented your devices from connecting to it. That is whay when access control was turned off everything worked. Bottom line, just change all of the MAC ADDRESSES on the 834 to the VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESSES formed by the WN3000RP and you will be set to go.

Hope that helps. I just set up my WN3000RP and am having much better coverage throughout my home, especially to my TV, phones, and tablet.

smsasaki wrote:
This is pretty simple - I don't know why Netgear doesn't document this better. If you log iinto your WN3000RP and look at the ATTACHED DEVICES screen you will see the attached devices with MAC ADDRESSES and also VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESSES. As you can see the WN3000RP creates a VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESS for each device connected to it. When you set up the Wireless Card Access List on your WNR834B router you will have to add the VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESSES that were listed by the WN3000RP. Your table was previously setup for the actual MAC ADDRESSES so they did not match - and the router prevented your devices from connecting to it. That is whay when access control was turned off everything worked. Bottom line, just change all of the MAC ADDRESSES on the 834 to the VIRTUAL MAC ADDRESSES formed by the WN3000RP and you will be set to go. Hope that helps. I just set up my WN3000RP and am having much better coverage throughout my home, especially to my TV, phones, and tablet.

smsasaki thanks for your reply.

I have not tested your solution yet, but I think this wil solve my problem 2.
I have got a WNDR3700 router combined with 2 WN3000RP extenders and I have the same problem with the access list. But I did not know the extenders generates a virtual mac.
Last night I looked in the log of my router and I wondered what all the mac's of the almost correct mac's of my devices where. Now I know.

Tonight I will try your solution and I will let all of you know if my problem is solved.

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