2.7.1 Access Control List

If you want to restrict users from accessing certain Internet applications/services (e.g. Internet websites, email, FTP etc.), then this is the place to set that configuration. Access Control allows users to define the traffic type permitted in your LAN. You can control which PC client can have access to these services.

 

Parameter

 

Description

 

Policy

User can choose to log or not to log packets which match any configured ACL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingress means packets from LAN to Gateway and Egress means packets from

 

 

 

Gateway to WAN. Pay special attention to the “Egress, source IP/port” direction

 

Direction/IP

 

group. The source IP address of an LAN-to-WAN packet will be already

 

 

changed to gateway’s public IP address. That means if you created a system-

 

 

 

 

 

 

wise egress rule, please specifying the Gateway WAN IP address as the

 

 

 

source IP.

 

 

 

 

 

Type

 

Specify the traffic type here. You can pick TCP for TCP traffic, UDP for UDP

 

 

traffic, or IP for all kind of IP traffic.

 

 

 

 

Port

 

Specify the TCP/UDP port number for filtered traffic.

 

 

 

 

 

Day/Time

 

You can select a range of day and time that the specified PCs will not able to

 

 

access the Internet on these time period.

 

 

 

 

Enable

 

You can Enable/Disable some policies by check their enable checkbox.

 

 

 

 

You can now configure other advance sections or start using the router (with the advance settings in place)

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