NETGEAR FVS318G manual Administrator Tips

ProSafe Gigabit 8 Port VPN Firewall FVS318G Reference Manual

Administrator Tips

Consider the following operational items:

•As an option, you can enable remote management if you have to manage distant sites from a central location (see “Configuring an External Server for Authentication” on page 6-11).

•Although rules (see “Using Rules to Block or Allow Specific Kinds of Traffic” on page 4-2) is the basic way of managing the traffic through your system, you can further refine your control with the following optional features of the VPN firewall:

–Groups and hosts (see “Managing Groups and Hosts (LAN Groups)” on page 3-5)

–Services (see “Services-Based Rules” on page 4-3)

–Schedules (see “Setting a Schedule to Block or Allow Specific Traffic” on page 4-29)

–Block sites (see “Blocking Internet Sites (Content Filtering)” on page 4-30)

–Source MAC filtering (see “Configuring Source MAC Filtering” on page 4-33)

–Port triggering (see “Configuring Port Triggering” on page 4-37)

4-42 Firewall Protection and Content Filtering

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