how to enable mac filtering on a 5268ac router

I use the extender precisely as it is designed for: to extend my WiFi coverage at home to a location far from my main router. May it you very much for your detailed answer. Therefore, if you want to limit the access of devices which connect to the RE200, you can use the access control feature on the extender itself to block/allow specific device. It is very complicated, and with more and more devices connected to the extender, more entries we need to create under the MAC filtering page to make them work. Reasons are listed below: first, the extender connects to the router, to make the extender work, MAC address of the extender need to be added into the whitelist on the other hand, for those devices which connect to the RE200, we also need to add their mac addresses into the whitelist to allow them access internet besides, considering these devices may connect to the main router directly, and there will be a new MAC address for them due to the proxy mode, we need to add the virtual MAC addresses into whitelist as well. Thank considering the mac filtering entries you need add, it is not suggested to enable MAC filtering feature on the router. It would have saved quite some time if tp-link had chosen to make this information available to the users through the user guide. Upon adding that other address to the 5G MAC filter, 5G connectivity with the RE200 works also normally with the filter activated. Rather, yet another undocumented MAC address appears in that log. With the filter activated, connection with the RE200 works normally.įinally, I noticed that the extra MAC address showing in the wireless log for 2.4G is not showing in the log for 5G. I have now added this undocumented MAC address to the MAC filter list. I noticed that the extra MAC address was quite different from the RE200 one that did connect with an IP address. So, this must be the extra MAC address that Henr圜 was referring to in 2018 on this forum. The additional MAC address apparently is not bound to an IP address and disappeared when I switched off the RE200. With the MAC filter switched off, this log had one entry more than what was shown in the Wireless Client list of the Network Map that I had been using (which shows MAC and related IP addresses).

The wireless log shows which MAC addresses are connected to the router.

It turned out that my ASUS router RT-N66U has a 'Wireless Log' which sits under the tab 'System Log'.

To my reply of March 4th, I am happy to let you know I have been able to resolve the connection problem.

How to enable mac filtering on a 5268ac router