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keyword found in the URL of the web page, such as ‘example’.
You can define URL Blocking rules for up to 30 web sites or keywords.
URL Blocking is then activated by creating an access control rule on the Advanced Set-Up
> Firewall > Access Control page using the ‘WWW with URL Blocking’ service option. The
rule can be applied to an IP address of a single computer on your network or a range of IP
addresses.
Before setting up an URL Blocking rule, it is a good idea to reserve an IP address for the
device you wish to set up the rule for. You can do this in the Advanced Set-Up > DHCP
admin page, under the address reservation section. See
how to reserve an IP address
on page
124 for further information.
To access the URL Blocking page:
1.
Login to the router’s admin pages.
2.
Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with
caution’ page.
3.
Click on Firewall in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Firewall menu
4.
Click on URL Blocking in the left hand navigation menu:
How to create a URL Blocking rule
To block access to particular web sites on your computers or attached devices:
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1.
Reserve an IP address for the computer you wish to set up the access control rule on.
You can do this in the Advanced Set-Up > DHCP admin page. See
how to reserve an
IP address
on page 124 for further information.
2.
Login to the router’s admin pages.
3.
Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with
caution’ page.
4.
Click on Firewall in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Firewall menu
5.
Click on URL Blocking in the left hand navigation menu.
6.
Enter the URL of the web address you wish to block, for example - www.example.com, or
just a keyword out of the URL e.g. (you don’t need to enter both) – example:
7.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save Settings:
8.
Now, in the left hand navigation menu select Access Control:
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9.
Click the add device filtering rule link:
10.
On the edit device filtering rule page, enter a rule description – in this example we
will enter ‘URL Blocking’
11.
Enter the IP address or range of addresses of the computer or device on your network
you wish to block the URL on. You can block the URL on all computers by entering
‘192.168.1.2 ~ 254’ – In this example we will block the URL on the computer
192.168.1.10
only by entering ‘192.168.1.10 ~ 10’
12.
Tick the ‘blocking’ box for the ‘WWW with URL Blocking’ service:
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13.
Do not change the ‘Schedule Rule’ option, leave it as ‘Always Blocking’ and click Save
Settings:
14.
Select the ‘Enable’ option for the ‘Filtering function’ the Access Control page and click
Save Settings:
15.
The URL Blocking rule will now be active, and any attempt to access the URL or a URL
containing the keyword entered in step in a web browser will prevent the page from
being displayed.
If you want to remove the URL Blocking rule at any time, navigate back to the Access
Control page and click the Delete link next to the URL Blocking rule:
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Once a rule has been created, you can navigate back to the URL Blocking page and
update the URL list at any time, adding or deleting entries as you see fit.
SCHEDULE RULE
The Schedule Rule page allows you to create schedules to apply to the access control rules.
This may be useful if you wish to restrict certain types of Internet traffic at particular times of
the day (or night), for example to help protect your children online.
You can create schedule rules from Sunday – Saturday or create an ‘Every Day’ rule. For each
day you can specify a start time and end time for the rule to be applied.
When you create an access control rule, you can specify from the ‘Scheduling Rule’ dropdown
which schedule rule you want to apply. Traffic will then be blocked only for the times
configured in the schedule rule.
To access the Schedule Rule page:
1.
Login to the router’s admin pages.
2.
Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with
caution’ page.
3.
Click on Firewall in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Firewall menu
4.
Click on Schedule Rule in the left hand navigation menu:
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