Chapter 12 Content Filtering Screens

Figure 172 SECURITY > CONTENT FILTER > General

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 76 SECURITY > CONTENT FILTER > General

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

General Setup

 

 

 

Enable Content Filter

Select this check box to enable the content filter. Content filtering works on

 

HTTP traffic that is using TCP ports 80, 119, 3128 or 8080.

 

See Section 24.1 on page 471 if you need to use content filtering for traffic

 

on custom ports.

 

 

Enable Content Filter

Select this check box to have the content filter apply to traffic that the

for VPN traffic

ZyWALL sends out through a VPN tunnel or receives through a VPN tunnel.

 

The ZyWALL applies the content filter to the traffic before encrypting it or

 

after decrypting it.

 

Note: The ZyWALL can apply content filtering on the traffic

 

going to or from the ZyWALL’s VPN tunnels. It does not

 

apply to other VPN traffic for which the ZyWALL is not

 

one of the gateways (VPN pass-through traffic).

 

 

External Database

The external database content filtering service has the ZyWALL check an

Service General Setup

external database to find to which category a requested web page belongs.

 

 

Enable External

Turn on external database content filtering to have the ZyWALL block or

Database Content

forward access to web pages depending on the ZyWALL’s external

Filtering

database content filtering settings.

 

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