Vpn Tunnels; Using Qos To Shift The Traffic Mix; Tools For Traffic Management; Administrator And Guest Access Authorization - NETGEAR FVX538 - ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 Router Reference Manual

Reference Manual for the ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 FVX538

VPN Tunnels

The VPN firewall permits up to 200 VPN tunnels at a time. Each tunnel requires extensive
processing for encryption and authentication.
See Chapter 7, "Virtual Private

Using QoS to Shift the Traffic Mix

The QoS priority settings determine the priority and, in turn, the quality of service for the traffic
passing through the firewall. The QoS is set individually for each service.
• You can accept the default priority defined by the service itself by not changing its QoS
setting.
• You can change the priority to a higher or lower value than its default setting to give the
service higher or lower priority than it otherwise would have.
The QoS priority settings conform to the IEEE 802.1D-1998 (formerly 802.1p) standard for class
of service tag.
You will not change the WAN bandwidth used by changing any QoS priority settings. But you will
change the mix of traffic through the WAN ports by granting some services a higher priority than
others. The quality of a service is impacted by its QoS setting, however.
See "Quality of Service (QoS) Priorities" on page 6-18
feature.

Tools for Traffic Management

The FVX538 ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 includes several tools that can be used to monitor the
traffic conditions of the firewall and control who has access to the Internet and the types of traffic
they are allowed to have. See

Administrator and Guest Access Authorization

You can change the administrator and guest passwords, administrator login timeout, and enable
remote management. Administrator access is read/write and guest access is read-only.
8-8
Networking" for the procedure on how to use this feature.
"Monitoring" on page 8-15
January 2005
for the procedure on how to use this
for a discussion of the tools.
Router and Network Management