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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.