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4.6.2 Domain Filter

Domain Filter

let you prevent users under this device from accessing specific URLs.

Domain Filter Enable

Check if you want to enable Domain Filter.

Log DNS Query

Check if you want to log the action when someone accesses the specific URLs.

Privilege IP Addresses Range

Setting a group of hosts and privilege these hosts to access network without restriction.

Domain Suffix

A suffix of URL to be restricted. For example, ".com", "xxx.com".

Action

When someone is accessing the URL met the domain-suffix, what kind of action you want.

Check drop to block the access. Check log to log these access.

Enable

Check to enable each rule.

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Example:

In this example:

1.

URL include

“

www.msn.com

”

will be blocked, and the action will be record in log-file.

2.

URL include

“

www.sina.com

”

will not be blocked, but the action will be record in log-file.

3.

URL include

“

www.google.com

”

will be blocked, but the action will not be record in log-file.

4.

IP address X.X.X.1~ X.X.X.20 can access network without restriction.

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4.6.3 URL Blocking

URL Blocking

will block LAN computers to connect to pre-defined Websites.

The major difference between

“

Domain filter

”

and

“

URL Blocking

”

is Domain filter require user to

input suffix (like .com or .org, etc), while URL Blocking require user to input a keyword only. In other

words, Domain filter can block specific website, while URL Blocking can block hundreds of websites

by simply a

keyword

.

URL Blocking Enable

Checked if you want to enable URL Blocking.

URL

If any part of the Website's URL matches the pre-defined word, the connection will be blocked.

For example, you can use pre-defined word "sex" to block all websites if their URLs contain

pre-defined word "sex".

Enable

Checked to enable each rule.

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In this example:

1.URL include

“

msn

”

will be blocked, and the action will be record in log-file.

2.URL include

“

sina

”

will be blocked, but the action will be record in log-file

3.URL include

“

cnnsi

”

will not be blocked, but the action will be record in log-file.

4. URL include

“

espn

”

will be blocked, but the action will be record in log-file

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4.6.4 MAC Address Control

MAC Address Control allows you to assign different access right for different users and to assign a

specific IP address to a certain MAC address.

MAC Address Control

Check

“

Enable

”

to enable the

“

MAC Address Control

”

. All of the

settings in this page will take effect only when

“

Enable

”

is checked.

Connection control

Check "Connection control" to enable the controlling of which wired can

connect to this device. If a client is denied to connect to this device, it

means the client can't access to the Internet either. Choose "allow" or

"deny" to allow or deny the clients, whose MAC addresses are not in the

"Control table" (please see below), to connect to this device.