ProSafe Gigabit 8 Port VPN Firewall FVS318G Reference Manual

After a PC has finished using a port triggering application, there is a time-out period before the application can be used by another PC. This is required because the firewall cannot be sure when the application has terminated.

See “Configuring Port Triggering” on page 4-37for the procedure on how to use this feature.

DMZ Port

The DMZ Setup screen allows you to set up the DMZ port. Specifying a Default DMZ server allows you to set up a computer or server that is available to anyone on the Internet for services that you haven't defined.

The default setting of the rules is that the DMZ port and both inbound and outbound traffic is disabled. Enabling the DMZ port increases the traffic through the WAN port.

The VPN firewall makes LAN port 8 a dedicated hardware DMZ port when DMZ is enabled (see “VPN Firewall Front and Rear Panels” on page 1-6).

See “Configuring and Enabling the DMZ Port” on page 3-11and “Configuring DMZ WAN Rules” on page 4-12for the procedure on how to use this feature.

VPN Tunnels

The VPN firewall permits up to 200 VPN tunnels at a time. Each tunnel requires extensive processing for encryption and authentication.

See Chapter 5, “Virtual Private Networking” for the procedure on how to use this feature.

Using QoS to Shift the Traffic Mix

The QoS priority settings determine the priority and, in turn, the quality of service for the traffic passing through the VPN firewall. The QoS is set individually for each service.

You can accept the default priority defined by the service itself by not changing its QoS setting.

You can change the priority to a higher or lower value than its default setting to give the service higher or lower priority than it otherwise would have.

The QoS priority settings conform to the IEEE 802.1D-1998 (formerly 802.1p) standard for class of service tag.

You will not change the WAN bandwidth used by changing any QoS priority settings. But you will change the mix of traffic through the WAN port by granting some services a higher priority than others. The quality of a service is impacted by its QoS setting, however.

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NETGEAR FVS318G manual Using QoS to Shift the Traffic Mix, DMZ Port, VPN Tunnels