Content Filtering; Source Mac Filtering; Features That Increase Traffic - NETGEAR FVS318G Reference Manual

• Schedule. You can configure three different schedules to specify when a rule is 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. For more information, see
Schedule to Block or Allow Specific Traffic
• QoS profile. You can apply QoS profiles to outbound rules to regulate the priority of
traffic. For information about QoS profiles, see
on page 183.
• Bandwidth profile. You can define bandwidth profiles and then apply the outbound LAN
WAN rules to limit traffic. (You cannot apply bandwidth profiles to DMZ WAN rules.) For
information about how to define bandwidth profiles, see
page 180.

Content Filtering

If you want to reduce traffic by preventing access to certain sites on the Internet, you can use
the VPN firewall's content-filtering feature. By default, this feature is disabled; all requested
traffic from any website is allowed.
To reduce traffic, the VPN firewall provides the following methods to filter web content:
• Keyword blocking. You can specify words that, if they appear in the website name
(URL) or newsgroup name, cause that site or newsgroup to be blocked by the VPN
firewall.
• Web object blocking. You can block the following web component types: embedded
objects (ActiveX and Java), proxies, and cookies.
To further narrow down the content filtering, you can configure groups to which the
content-filtering rules apply and trusted domains for which the content-filtering rules do not
apply.

Source MAC Filtering

If you want to reduce outgoing traffic by preventing Internet access by certain computers on
the LAN, you can use the source MAC filtering feature to drop the traffic received from the
computers with the specified MAC addresses. By default, this feature is disabled; all traffic
received from computers with any MAC address is allowed. For more information, see
Enable Source MAC Filtering

Features That Increase Traffic

The following features of the VPN firewall tend to increase the traffic load on the WAN side:
• LAN WAN inbound rules (also referred to as port forwarding)
• DMZ WAN inbound rules (also referred to as port forwarding)
• Port triggering
• Enabling the DMZ port
• Configuring exposed hosts
NETGEAR ProSAFE VPN Firewall FVS318G v2
on page 195.
on page 196.
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