Configuration with Advanced Setup

Restricting access of local PCs to the Internet

Under the general heading Firewall the Gigaset Router offers the following protection functions:

◆Complete isolation of a PC

This allows you to prevent any access at all to Web pages from a given PC. To do this use the functions on the Firewall – Access control page.

◆Blocking certain URLs

–Keyword filtering

This allows you to prevent the opening of Web pages whose URL contains certain keywords that you have defined.

Example: Keyword abcd

This would block a website with the URL http://www.abcd.com

–URL filtering

This allows you to prevent the displaying of a website with a particular URL address.

Example: URL http://www.abcd.com/products

This would block precisely the Web page http://www.abcd.com/products.

–Domain blocking

This allows you to block a particular URL address and all the subsequent addresses that begin with the same sequence of characters.

Example: Domain http://www.abcd.com

All Web pages beginning with http://www.abcd.com would be blocked, e.g. http://www.abcd.com and also http://www.abcd.com/products, http://www.abcd.com/service, http://www.abcd.com/products/ product_graphics1.htm etc.

To do this use the functions on the Firewall – URL blocking page.

◆Time limits for blocks

You can define a particular block period or a schedule during which certain blocks become active. You can include the four block strategies described above in this schedule.

To do this use the functions on the Firewall – Schedule Rule page.

iYou will find a detailed example of how to set Internet blocks in "Practical Tips and Configuration Examples" on the supplied CD.

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