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Chapter 4 Service

After having set up your network environment in the previous chapter, we will now

look into the services provided by BR-6641.

These services can help you manage your network more efficiently and effectively.

In figure 4.1, you can see a list of functions BR-6641 is capable of. These services

play an important role in daily network administration. For example, Firewall protects

your network from hacker attacks. It also improves your network security by filtering

out unwanted service types. Routing policies can maximize the utilization of your

network resources and assign routing paths accordingly based on the status of the

network. QoS is another feature that you can set up to manage the traffic limit for a

given TCP/UDP service (e.g. HTTP, FTP). This feature helps you allocate available

bandwidth for each type of service and maximize the efficiency of your network.

Multihoming provides a safeguard against failures in WAN links. Requests to the

internal servers (e.g. WWW server) will be dispatched evenly on every live WAN link.

If one of them fails, the internal servers can still be reached via other live links.

Figure 4.1 The Location of "System/Summary" on the Menu Bar

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