Why the Repeater's MAC Address not the LAPTOP's?

Hi

I'm using a DWL-G710 dlink repeater with DWL-7200AP dlink acces
point. Network diagram is: laptop -> repeater -> access point -
router -> interne
Our router requires the MAC addresses of multiplelaptops connecting t
the repeater for access monitoring but for some reason the router see
the MAC address of the repeater. Is this a problem with the repeater

Thanks
Benc

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bench <bench.1mmszm@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote in
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> I'm using a DWL-G710 dlink repeater with DWL-7200AP dlink access
> point. Network diagram is: laptop -> repeater -> access point ->
> router -> internet
> Our router requires the MAC addresses of multiplelaptops
> connecting to the repeater for access monitoring but for some
> reason the router sees the MAC address of the repeater. Is this a
> problem with the repeater?

Not entirely sure I understand what the problem is...

If you are using MAC address filtering, then you need to specify all
the MAC addresses that appear in the wireless traffic. A repeater is
an implementation of WDS (Wireless Distribution System) described in
IEEE 802.11, and the MAC frames in such a link have 4 address fields.
The are (informally) the original transmitter and the final
recipient, and the transmitter/receiver of the current intermediate
hop [1].

So to get MAC address filtering to work you will need to specify the
MAC address of both the laptop ans the repeater.

Hope this helps

[1] More formally, the MAC addresses are:
DA Destination Address
SA Source Address
RA Receiver Address
TA Transmitter Address

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