ZyXEL Communications 2864I user manual Prestige’s Filter Structure, Configuring a Filter Set

For incoming packets, the Prestige applies data filters only. Packets are processed depending upon whether a match is made. The Prestige allows you to customize the filter sets that you wish to use. This following sections describe how to configure the Prestige’s filter sets.

Prestige’s Filter Structure

You can configure up to twelve filter sets with six rules in each set. Therefore, the Prestige allows you to customize up to 72 filter rules (12 x 6).

When implementing these filter sets, you can link up to four of the filter sets together to screen the data packet. Therefore, with each filter set having up to six rules, you can have a maximum of 24 rules active for a single filtering application.

Configuring a Filter Set

In order to distinguish between the 12 filter sets, each filter set should have a name or some comments. You can edit these comments in the following way.

1.From the Main Menu, select option 21. Filter Set Configuration. This will bring you to Menu 21 - Filter Set Configuration.

2.From this menu, you can choose from among the twelve filter sets. Select the filter set you wish to configure (1-12).

This will bring you to the Edit Comments field. Whatever the comments are for that filter set will be displayed in this field. You can edit the comments you wish to use to identify that filter set.

Once you have completed filling in Edit Comments field, press ENTER at the message: Press ENTER to Confirm ... to confirm your selections, or press ESC at any time to cancel your selections.

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