Chapter 6
Router and Network Management
This chapter describes how to use the network management features of your ProSafe VPN Firewall 50. These features can be found by clicking on the appropriate heading in the Main Menu of the browser interface.
The ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 offers many tools for managing the network traffic to optimize its performance. You can also control administrator access, be alerted to important events requiring prompt action, monitor the firewall status, perform diagnostics, and manage the firewall configuration file.
Performance Management
Performance management consists of controlling the traffic through the VPN firewall so that the necessary traffic gets through when there is a bottleneck and either reducing unnecessary traffic or rescheduling some traffic to
VPN Firewall Features That Reduce Traffic
Features of the VPN firewall that can be called upon to decrease
•Service Blocking
•Block Sites
•Source MAC Filtering
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