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Reference Manual for the ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 FVX538
• Scanning the Network—The local network is scanned using standard methods such as arp.
This will detect active devices which are not DHCP clients. However, sometimes the name of
the PC or device cannot be accurately determined, and will be shown as Unknown.
See "Managing Groups and Hosts" on page 6-20
Schedule
If you have set firewall rules on the Rules screen, you can configure three different schedules (i.e.,
schedule 1, schedule 2, and schedule 3) for when a rule is to be applied. Once a schedule is
configured, it affects all Rules that use this schedule. You specify the days of the week and time of
day for each schedule.
See "Using a Schedule to Block or Allow Specific Traffic" on page 6-22
to use this feature.

Block Sites

If you want to reduce traffic by preventing access to certain sites on the Internet, you can use the
VPN firewall's filtering feature. By default, this feature is disabled; all requested traffic from any
Web site is allowed.
• Keyword (and domain name) blocking—You can specify up to 32 words that, should they
appear in the website name (i.e., URL) or in a newsgroup name, will cause that site or
newsgroup to be blocked by the VPN firewall.
You can apply the keywords to one or more groups. Requests from the PCs in the groups for
which keyword blocking has been enabled will be blocked. Blocking does not occur for the
PCs that are in the groups for which keyword blocking has not been enabled.
You can bypass keyword blocking for trusted domains by adding the exact matching domain
to the list of Trusted Domains. Access to the domains on this list by PCs even in the groups for
which keyword blocking has been enabled will still be allowed without any blocking.
• Web component blocking—You can block the following Web component types: Proxy, Java,
ActiveX, and Cookies. Sites on the Trusted Domains list are still subject to Web component
blocking when the blocking of a particular Web component has been enabled.
See "Block Sites" on page 6-24
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for the procedure on how to use this feature.
for the procedure on how to use this feature.
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