I am very new to this and am in need of help. I just set up my HP Paviolion notebook to my wirless network. I was told that I need to secure the network by adding the notebook mac filter id to the network. I hope I'm phrasing this correctly. In any case, were do I find the mac filter id, and how do I add it?
thanks!
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Go to Start > Run (or Windows Key + R), type cmd
Command window should come up (looks like dos kinda)...type in "ipconfig /all"
Look for the appropriate network card and should be listed next to physical address -
And so you have an idea of what you're doing, a MAC address is a hardware address (data link layer) that every network adapter and device has, and which are regulated to be kept unique. Thus, they're very good for whitelisting, as they never change with software configuration. They can be spoofed, however, so don't feel completely safe. Make sure you're using encryption in addition to your MAC filtering.
MAC addresses are actually used for all the addressing between computers, IP and other addresses are translated to and from mostly for the sake of human interaction.
Oh, and if you can already access the network without adding your MAC address, then this type of filtering is probably disabled on your firewall/router, or not stringent enough to restrict your uses. Unless you have very sensitive data, I probably wouldn't bother setting it up. Just make sure you're using an encryption key. -
How Do I Find Mac Filter ID?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Adm7080, Jul 30, 2008.