Why is MAC filtering useless?

Why do we need MAC addresses when you have local IP addresses

So, the best thing is to store the MAC address in the routing table, not IP address. That's my opinion. – Thirasha. Commented Feb 20, 2021 at 13 ...

Mac address filtering works like a charm - use-IP

Your device MAC address will not travel over the internet so MAC filtering will only work on the LAN. IP filtering will work over the internet, ...

How to deactivate MAC filtering for Guest network?

Unfortunately, it doesn't work so easy! If the SSID is different, the network is the same, with the IP addresses being in the same range as the ...

When MAC Filtering is enabled, clients with correct password but not ...

I have wireless protection enabled in SFOS using a Sophos AP. I recently created an MAC host group with a whitelist of MAC addresses of devices ...

We need to modify the MAC address function of the wireless network ...

Security and MAC address are two different things. Moreover, MAC addresses are no longer sufficient to prove network security. A router or ...

How to: Catalyst 9800 MAC Filtering | 0x2142 | Networking Nonsense

While this isn't a perfect security measure since MAC addresses can be easily spoofed - it does add an extra layer of protection to keep ...

Re: MAC filtering disabled - Community home

The Mac filter tab under settings allows me to turn Mac filtering ... Vodafone support have been fairly useless, asking me to do what I ...

Wireless Security - mac filtering and static IP address | TechRepublic

In my opinion, IP / MAC address filtering takes time away from a system administrator that could be better spent on other tasks and doesn't offer any ...

Is MAC filtering available with virtio network device? - virtualbox.org

The problem is that there are too many useless packet, so we decided not to use promiscuos mode. Instead, using MAC filtering I made only ...

Spark SmartModem2 MAC filter schedule for wifi access not working

Using the router for this will be a pretty poor experience + many devices randomise the MAC address making mac filtering useless (it always has ...

MAC Address Changing with every Reset? | Page 2 - XDA Forums

putting aside the weird WP7 behaviour for the moment... MAC filtering is useless as a security measure. It's trivially spoofable by anyone who ...

MAC address - Android Central Forums

IP tracking is useless, because not only device is no it the one assign IP here (or else it been set manually, which no body do that on mobile ...

Re: MAC address filtering - Google Nest Community

Android phones allows you can choose “dynamic MAC address” when connecting to a new wifi network.. this means children can delete their existing Wi-Fi ...

Solved: Mac filtering - TELUS Neighbourhood

The web-based interface has a MAC filtering section, but folks have had varying success using it. If this is truly a need, a secondary router may be the best ...

iptables mac address filtering - vps - Server Fault

I get useless error messages along the lines of "iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615". (Tried it on ubuntu and centos) Is my syntax ...

Solved - How to bypass/remove Windows 8 MAC address restrictions?

If the router is yours, log in to its admin panel and add all MAC addresses you need to. If the router is not yours, the MAC filtering is doing ...

Explain why MAC filters don't work - [H]ard|Forum

Ok heres the deal. Yes MAC filtering will prevent the casual attempt, but so will WEP. If the person is able to defeat WEP, MAC filtering is ...

MAC filtering by OUI but not MAC authentication | Security

Under Security>Authentication>User Rules I created a user rule called MAC-FILTER. In that filter I placed two entries. One is a macaddr starts- ...

Smart Hub. MAC filtering. - The EE Community

I've seen this topic mentioned a few times on here but I'm posting again to say just how stupid an idea it is not have MAC filter. Right now ...

filezilla server mac filtering

MAC addresses are useless for permissions, they are not routed over the internet and thus get lost. Additionally, they can be spoofed easily.