Having just gone through the exercise of replacing my 2850n with a 2860Vn-plus, I've just had to go through the process of manually re-entering my Wi-Fi whitelist [I block all access to non-white-listed devices] in order to allow my personal equipment to connect. Looking at the device list [in the Access Control section], all I have to work with is a long list of 12-digit hex strings.
Never mind the potential for transcription errors - these are largely meaningless blocks of data to me... It would make a *massive* difference to legibility if each of these entries could be partnered with a simple alpha field for a human-readable name. So I could have "iPad No. 2" or "Fred's Acer" or something like that. I do appreciate that doing this would require a certain amount of NV-RAM to be available, and that for any lengthy whitelist the capacity required could quickly run to a good few Kb... but surely that has to be possible with the falling price of static RAM chips?
If Draytek could couple this with my previous suggestion [the import/export capability for whitelist entries] then we would end up with an extremely powerful combination, because I could export a list from one machine, remove redundant entries by hand, and quickly import to a new router. For anyone managing a network of these devices, it would simply administration.
In a super-sophisticated future state we might even create the ability to remotely push these files via sftp, or allow the routers to periodically check from a known IP address on the internal network segment, and pull down a replacement config file - so that a network administrator only needed to update one master whitelist in one place. Those, however, would be for a wishlist in the far future - for now some basic utility would be a fantastic improvement...
Thanks!
