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Configuration with Advanced Setup
Restricting access to certain Internet domains and sites
You can prevent members of your LAN accessing certain Internet domains and sites by
defining a filter for URL's. Filtering a URL means that the specified URL and all of the
URL's downstream of it are blocked for access. Specifying a domain name blocks the
complete domain with all of its dependent URL's.
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In the Filter menu, select URL Filter.
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You will find a detailed example of how to set up URL blocks in "Practical
Tips and Configuration Examples" on the CD supplied.
Setting up the router as a virtual server
If you want to offer files or Web services that are on a PC in your local network to other
Internet users, set the PC up as a server (e. g. as FTP or HTTP server). However the
router's
Firewall
function does not normally allow PC's in the LAN to be accessed from
"outside". To make services that are provided by local PC's available on the Internet
therefore, you should
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either put the PC on which the server application is running in a so-called demilita-
rised zone (DMZ) (see page 83) or
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set up the router as a virtual server. In this case,
requests for the service which the router receives from the Internet to the PC that
provides the service (see page 84).
If your router gets a
service is always available despite the router's changing IP address. You can use the
router's DynDNS function for this (see page 85).
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You will find a detailed example of how to set up URL blocks in "Practical
Tips and Configuration Examples" on the CD supplied.
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Dynamic IP address
from your ISP, you must make sure that the
Port Forwarding
will forward
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