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Sonicwall MAC Filtering

I want to start MAC filtering at the company I work at with our Sonicwall. But everything I read says that MAC filtering is only done for wireless networks on the Sonicwall. I want to enforce it on our wired network. Does Sonicwall do that?

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Robert Sutton Jr

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Its to prevent people with unsecure laptops from coming in, plugging into a port and having access to our office network. We want to force them to use our guest wireless. Does that make sense?

IT-Monkey-Dave

You might want to do that to discourage users from accessing resources by plugging in "rogue" devices without permission.

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There's a lot of traffic here, so I'm trying to deny unauthorized machines from plugging in to a port.

IT-Monkey-Dave

Is it an Active Directory domain? You could probably do that via Group Policy. Computer not a member of domain = No access.

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The office is connected to a VPN which goes to our datacenter with our servers/domains etc. If you're away from the office you have to log in to the VPN. If you're in the office, you just plug in and you're already connected. You don't have a user name and password to connect to the servers or anything, but you're on the office network. I'm probably not explaining very well.

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