Chapter 3 Configuration

If the router is configured to allow internal users to access only certain specified domains, check add the domain name into the Trusted Domain list. If the router is configured to allow internal users to access all websites except for some forbidden domains, add the forbidden domain name into the Forbidden Domain list. These Forbidden Domains will be blocked, and users will no longer be able to access the websites from the LAN.

The checking procedure is like these steps.

1.Check the domain in the URL’s string if it is in the trusted list. If yes, send it to outside world.

2.If not, check if it is listed in the forbidden list or the function, disable all WEB traffic except Trusted Domains, is checked, then drop this packet.

3.If the packet is not matched with above two items, the send it to outside world.

To add a domain name, enter its host name, such as www.bad-site.com into the text field under Domain and select either Trusted Domain or Forbidden Domain, then click Apply. The specified domain will be shown in the Domain List. DO NOT include http://, ONLY the sub-domain is allowed. For instance, taking “yahoo.com” as the trusted domain means that www.yahoo.com, my.yahoo.com, and sports.yahoo.com will also be trusted.

To remove a site that was previously added, select its name in the list box, and click the Delete button to eliminate it from the list.

3.6.3.5 VPN

The router supports VPN to establish secure, end-to-end private network connections over a public networking infrastructure. There are two types of VPN connections, the remote access and LAN-to-LAN VPN. Deploying a remote access VPN enables users to reduce the cost by leveraging the local dial-up infrastructures of the ISP, in addition,

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