Motorola VT2142 manual Block All Traffic, Block Outgoing, Ping, Custom IP Filters

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Configuration: Basic Advanced TCP/IP

IP Filters

IP filtering enables you to block applications and services based on the IP address of a LAN device. You can apply one or more predefined IP filtering rules to one or more LAN computers. You can view the rules associated with a predefined filter and add the available rules for a given category. You can also create, edit, or delete your own IP filter rules.

IP Filters fields and buttons

Field or Button	Description
LAN IP	The IP address in the LAN group to which the IP filters are applied.
New IP	Displays the LAN Clients page.
Block All Traffic	If selected, network access is blocked for the IP address.
Block Outgoing	If selected, outgoing pings are blocked for the IP address. Blocking outgoing pings can be useful
Ping	if a computer has a virus that attempts a Ping-of-Death denial of service attack.
Custom IP Filters	Displays the Custom IP Filters page
Category	Sets the category for which rules are displayed in the Available Rules list — Games, VPN, Audio/
	Video, Apps (applications), Servers, or User (custom rules you can define and edit).
Available Rules	Predefined and user-defined IP filtering rules for each category.
View	Displays the settings for the selected Available Rule.
Add	Adds the selected Available Rule to the Applied Rules list.
Remove	Removes the selected rule from the Applied Rules list.
Applied Rules	Lists the IP filtering rules selected for the category.

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