All you out there with Buffalo wireless router

Buffalo wireless router

ok guys....i cannot get my laptop to connect to the buffalo airstation model no WBR2-G54S-1.......how do i get it to accept the mac address of my wirelesss lan on my lappy...keeps saying incorrect mac address, ....i cannot figur this mac filtering....can someone tell how to step by step??...cheers

Basically MAc Filtering is/was a first line of defence.

See, we think we use internal IP addresses to route on a small network, this isn't actualy happening. Small netqworks use "ARP" in conjunction with TCP/IP to route, so.... What happens is (Everyone does it differently) if you implement MAC filtering you are telling the router not to route to a MAC. Routers hold MAC addresses and assign IP addresses to a MAC, you see an IP address, the router see's a MAC address. Turn OFf MAc Address filtering. There is little need for it and infact I have seen so many occasions when implementing Mac filtering AND WEP/WPA clash. There really is little need to use MAC filtering. I rarely use it and i set networks up for a living.

If you are interested look up ARP tables and ARP broadcasts on Google.

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