NETGEAR manual ProSafe Gigabit 8 Port VPN Firewall FVS318G Reference Manual

ProSafe Gigabit 8 Port VPN Firewall FVS318G Reference Manual

•Restart Traffic Counter at a Specific Time. Restart the traffic counter at a specific time and day of the month. Fill in the time fields and choose AM or PM and the day of the month from the pull-down menus.

•Send e-mail report before restarting counter. An email report will be sent just before restarting the counter. You must configure the email capability in order for this function to work (see “Activating Notification of Events and Alerts” on page 6-23).

4.In the When limit is reached section, make the following choice:

•Block All Traffic. All access to and from the Internet will be blocked.

Warning: If the Block All Traffic radio button is selected, the WAN port shuts down once its traffic limit is reached

•Block all traffic except E-mail. Only email traffic will be allowed. All other traffic will be blocked.

•Send E-mail alert. You must configure the email capability in order for this function to work (see “Activating Notification of Events and Alerts” on page 6-23).

5.Click Apply to save your settings.

The Internet Traffic Statistics section of the screen displays statistics on Internet traffic through the WAN port. If you have not enabled the traffic meter, these statistics are not available.

To display a report of Internet traffic by type, click the Traffic by Protocol option arrow in the upper right-hand section of the Traffic Meter screen . The volume of traffic for each protocol will be displayed in a popup window. Traffic counters are updated in MBytes scale; the counter starts only when traffic passed is at least 1 MB.

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v1.1, August 2010