Chapter 1: Introduction; Features - Planet CS-5800 User Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction

As Internet becomes essential for your business, the only way to prevent your Internet connection from failure
is to have more than one connection. PLANET's Gigabit Content Security Router, CS-5800, reduces the risks
of potential shutdown if one of the Internet connections fails. Moreover, it allows you to perform load-balancing
by distributing the traffic through three or four WAN connections.
In addition to a Multi-Homing device, PLANET's Gigabit Content Security Router provides a complete security
solution in a box. The policy-based firewall, content filtering function makes it a perfect product for your
network security. No more complex connection and settings for integrating different security products on the
network is required.
This product is built-in bandwidth management function which also supported to offers network administrators
an easy yet powerful means to allocate network resources based on business priorities, and to shape and
control bandwidth usage.

1.1 Features

Multi-WAN Auto Backup: The CS-5800 can monitor each WAN link status and automatically activate
backup links when a failure is detected. The detection is based on the configurable target Internet
addresses.
Outbound Load Balancing: The network sessions are assigned based on the user configurable load
balancing mode, including "Auto Load Balance", "Unbinding WAN Balance" and "Strategy
Routing". User can also configure which IP or TCP/UDP type of traffic use which WAN port to connect.
Inbound Load Balancing: The CS-5800 provides the Inbound Load Balancing for enterprise's internal
server. The Inbound Load Balancing can reduce the server loading and system crash risks, in order to
improve the server working efficiency.
Policy-based Firewall: The built-in policy-based firewall prevent many known hacker attack including
Ping of Death, SYN Flooding, Land attack, IP Spoofing, etc. The access rule function allowed only
specified WAN or LAN users to use only allowed network services on specified time.
Content Filtering: The security gateway can block network connection based on URLs, Scripts (The
Java Applet, cookies and Active X), Restrict Application (MSN, Yahoo Messenger, QQ, PPSTREAM and
PPTV) and Download/Upload blocking.
Multiple DHCP Server: The multi DHCP server support 4 sets of Class C IP address, each server can
allocate up to 253 client IP addresses and distribute them including IP address, subnet mask as well as
DNS IP address to local computers. It provides an easy way to manage the local IP network.
QoS Bandwidth Management: Featured Smart QoS with dynamic bandwidth management to
automatically control P2P and video downloading and other bandwidth hogging to avoid bandwidth
insufficient. Prioritizing different person/group or applications in bandwidth using for a better reasonable
management.
Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS): The Dynamic DNS service allows users to alias a dynamic
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