Information processing device, access control processing method, and computer program

An access control processing method in an information processing apparatus comprising:

• an access request receiving step of receiving an access request from a client;
• a mode determining step of determining an access control mode set in the information processing apparatus is an automatic registration access control mode or a manually registered device access control mode;
• an access control step of executing an access control process for Registering one or more MAC addresses of an access requesting client up to a defined limit number of registration and for allowing access of said client under a condition of the registration process, if the set access control mode is the automatic registration access control mode;
• and of executing an access control process for allowing access of the client under the condition that the one or more MAC addresses of access requesting client are registered in the MAC address table as one or more manually registered MAC addresses if the set access control mode is the manually registered device access control mode;
• a registration processing step of executing a setting change process for changing an entry of the one or more automatically registered client MAC addresses to an entry of the one or more manually registered client MAC addresses in the MAC address table;
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• in the access control step, if the access control mode is set as the automatic registration access control mode, the type of access request from the client is identified, the one or more MAC addresses of the client up to the defined limit number of registration are registered only in the case where the type of the identified access request corresponds to the type of access request to which a predefined access control should be executed, and a process for allowing access of the client is executed under the condition of the registration process.

A computer program, tangible embodied in the computer-readable storage medium, for executing an access control process in an information processing apparatus comprising:

• a mode determining step of determining an access control mode set in the information processing apparatus is an automatic registration access mode or a manually registered device access control mode;
• an access control step of executing an access control process for registering one or more MAC addresses of an access requesting client up to a defined limit number of registration if a set access control mode is the automatic registration access control mode, and for allowing the access of said client under the condition of the registration process;
• and of executing an access control process for allowing the access of the client under the condition that the one or more MAC addresses of the access requesting client are registered in the MAC address table as one or more manually registered MAC addresses, if the set access control mode is the registered device access control mode;
• a registration processing step of executing a setting change process for changing an entry of the one or more automatically registered client MAC addresses to an entry of the one or more manually registered client MAC addresses in the MAC address table;
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• in the access control step, if the access control mode is set as the automatic registration access control mode, the type of access request from the client is identified, the one or more MAC addresses of the client up to the defined limit number of registration are registered only in the case where the type of the identified access request corresponds to the type of access request to which a predefined access control should be executed, and a process for allowing access of the client is executed under the condition of the registration process.