WMS5316 & WNDAP360 MAC authentication

[zpower]

Hello,

I'm using a WM5316 to manage 16 WNDAP360 APs. We use the built in MAC authentication to manage who can use the network, but we've seemed to run into a snag because we can't seem to register any more MAC addresses. There are 132 MAC addresses registered for 802.11 b/bg/ng and the same 132 registered for 802.11 a/an. I've been told from NETGEAR support that the limit of MAC addresses the unit can hold is 256, but I haven't been told if that is 256 total or 256 per protocol (e.g 256 for 802.11 b/bg/ng and 802.11 a/an). If it's total that doesn't make sense because 132 x 2 = 264. I've been waiting for a couple of days for an answer from them, so I figured I'd check the board.

Thanks for any advice or information on the subject in advance.

[adit]

Do you have any "a" clients out there? Very few devices use "a". Dump them if not.

Anything modern uses "n".

Read page 31 of the ref manual. You can use a RADIUS server for MAC Auth as well.

The manual says the device supports 512 MAC addresses, but that may have been scaled back.