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To delete an existing Service, select its button on the left side of the table and click Delete

Service.

3.

Modify the menu shown below for defining or editing a service.

Figure 6-8:

Add Services menu

4.

Click Apply to save your changes.

Setting Times and Scheduling Firewall Services

The FVS328 Firewall uses the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to obtain the current time and date

from one of several Network Time Servers on the Internet. In order to localize the time for your

log entries, you must select your Time Zone from the list.

How to Set Your Time Zone

In order to localize the time for your log entries, you must specify your Time Zone:

1.

Log in to the firewall at its default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1 with its default User

Name of

admin

, default password of

password

, or using whatever password and LAN

address you have chosen for the firewall.

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2.

Click

Schedule

on the Security menu to display menu shown below.

Figure 6-9:

Schedule Services menu

3.

Select your Time Zone. This setting will be used for the blocking schedule according to your

local time zone and for time-stamping log entries.

Check the Daylight Savings Time box if your time zone is currently in daylight savings time.

Note:

If your region uses Daylight Savings Time, you must manually check Adjust for

Daylight Savings Time on the first day of Daylight Savings Time, and uncheck it at the end.

Enabling Daylight Savings Time will cause one hour to be added to the standard time.

4.

The firewall uses Netgear NTP servers by default. If you would prefer to use a particular NTP

server as the primary server, enter its IP address under Use this NTP Server.

5.

Click

Apply

to save your settings.

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How to Schedule Firewall Services

If you enabled services blocking in the Block Services menu or Port forwarding in the Ports menu,

you can set up a schedule for when blocking occurs or when access isn't restricted.

1.

Log in to the firewall at its default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1 with its default User

Name of

admin

, default password of

password

, or using whatever Password and LAN

address you have chosen for the firewall.

2.

Click

Schedule

on the Security menu to display the

Schedule Services menu

.

3.

To block Internet services based on a schedule, select Every Day or select one or more days. If

you want to limit access completely for the selected days, select All Day. Otherwise, to limit

access during certain times for the selected days, enter Start Blocking and End Blocking times.

Note:

Enter the values as 24-hour time. For example, 10:30 am would be 10 hours and 30

minutes and 10:30 pm would be 22 hours and 30 minutes.

4.

Click

Apply

to save your changes.

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Chapter 7

Virtual Private Networking

This chapter describes how to use the virtual private networking (VPN) features of the FVS328

Firewall. VPN tunnels provide secure, encrypted communications between your local network and

a remote network or computer.

Overview of FVS328 Policy-Based VPN Configuration

The FVS328 uses state-of-the-art firewall and security technology to facilitate controlled and

actively monitored VPN connectivity. Since the FVS328 strictly conforms to Internet Engineering

Task Force (IETF) standards, it is interoperable with devices from major network equipment

vendors.

Figure 7-1:

Secure access through FVS328

VPN routers

Using Policies to Manage VPN Traffic

You create policy definitions to manage VPN traffic on the FVS328. There are two kinds of

policies:

VPN Firewall

VPN Firewall

VPN tunnels

encrypt data

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