NETGEAR manual FVS338 ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 Reference Manual

FVS338 ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 Reference Manual

•MAC-level Control over PCs. The Network Database uses the MAC address to identify each PC or device. So changing a PC's IP address does not affect any restrictions on that PC.

•Group and Individual Control over PCs

–You can assign PCs to Groups and apply restrictions to each Group using the Firewall Rules screen (see “Services-Based Rules” on page 4-2).

–You can also select the Groups to be covered by the Block Sites feature (see “Setting Block Sites (Content Filtering)” on page 4-22).

–If necessary, you can also create Firewall Rules to apply to a single PC (see “Enabling Source MAC Filtering” on page 4-24). Because the MAC address is used to identify each PC, users cannot avoid these restrictions by changing their IP address.

•A computer is identified by its MAC address—not its IP address. Hence, changing a computer’s IP address does not affect any restrictions applied to that PC.

The LAN Groups screen contains a list of all known PCs and network devices, as well as hosts that are assigned dynamic IP addresses by this router.

LAN Configuration 3-7

v1.0, March 2008