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Chapter 5

Gateway Configuration Options

This chapter explains when and how to use the Gateway’s modem options.

Overview

Many advanced features, status, and diagnostic screens and are provided for your convenience. This

chapter contains details of the configuration and use of each of these features. This chapter is organized

into three parts corresponding to the buttons in the toolbar:

•

Users

•

Devices

•

Gateway

Note

:

Some of the features described below require at least a mid-level understanding of networking

principles. These features are provided to allow configuration flexibility for advanced users.

Users

To use user profiling, simply click

Users

in the toolbar.

The system responds with the “User Profiles”

window. The “User Profiles” window provides details about all active user profiles. Select the “Enable

User Profiling” checkbox option to activate user profiles. You must enable User Profiling to utilize the

content filtering feature described in the next section. You must also be logged in as the administrator to

see all user profiles and to add a user.

From this window, you can add, view, and delete user profiles. Please see the next section in this

document titled Adding a User.

Figure 28: User Profile Window

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Adding a User

You may add different users to the gateway to restrict their access to both gateway functions and to the

Internet.

You

MUST

be logged in as the administrator to add a user.

To add a user:

1.

Click

Add New User

in the left-navigation-pane.

The system responds with the “Profile User

Information” window.

Figure 29. Profile User Information Window

2.

Type a user name in the “Username” box.

3.

Type a password in the “Password” box.

4.

Re-type the password in the “Confirm” box.

5.

Click

Next

.

The system responds with the “Profile Content Filtering” window.

Note

:

Optionally

,

you can click

Finish

to complete the user profile.

The system accepts all of the defaults for a user.

6.

Please see the next section in this document titled

Content Filtering (Optional)

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Content Filtering (Optional)

Content filtering restricts access to undesirable Web sites and Web content.

Note:

The “Enable User

Profiling” checkbox option must be selected on the “User Profiles” window for the content filtering

option to be operational.

To use content filtering:

1.

Select one of the following options from under the “These are three ways to set this up” heading:

•

Disable

: All Internet content is allowed for this user.

•

Allow access Only

: Allows access only to the specified Web addresses or to addresses containing

specified word entries. You must specify words or Web addresses to add to the table.

•

Deny all access

: Disables access to all Web addresses specified as well as addresses that contain

any words specified in the filter entries. You must specify words or Web addresses to add to the

table.

Note

:

Optionally

, you can click

Finish

to complete the user profile.

The system accepts all of the

defaults for a user.

2.

If the “Allow access Only” or “Deny all access” option is selected from step 1, type a word or Web

address in the box under the “Website word/name” table and click

Add Entry

.

The system responds

by adding the word or Web address to the “Website word/name” table.

Note

:

The entries in the

“Website word/name” table may be either modified or deleted at any time by clicking either

Edit

or

Delete

next to the corresponding word or Web address.

3.

Click

Next

.

Figure 30: Profile Content Filtering Window

4.

The system responds with the “Profile Configuration Access” window. Please see the next section in

this document titled

Profile Configuration Access (Optional)

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Profile Configuration Access (Optional)

Profile configuration allows the administrator to grant users certain permissions to access options on the

gateway.

To use profile configuration access:

1.

Select one of the following profiles and click

Next

.

Note

:

Optionally

, you can click

Finish

to

complete the user profile.

The system accepts all of the defaults for a user.

Figure 31: Profile Configuration Access Window

2.

The system responds with the “Profile Time Settings” window.

Note

:

Optionally

, you can click

Finish

to complete the user profile.

The system accepts all of the defaults for a user.

•

Administrator

Allows access to the Internet and all of the configuration tools on the gateway.

•

Gamer

Allows access to the Internet as well as the gateway’s commonly used tools for gamers, including

Port Configuration and DMZ.

•

Web Surfer

Allows access only to the Internet, not to the gateway’s configuration.

3.

Please see the next section in this document titled

Profile Time Settings (Optional)

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Profile Time Settings (Optional)

Profile time settings are used to limit a users ability to use the Internet during certain times of the day or

night. You can also define the amount of time a user stays logged on to the Internet without Web surfing

activity (Idle Time).

Note:

To use the time of day restrictions, you must have the Time Client enabled.

Please see

Gateway Setup Wizard

for more information.

To use profile time settings:

1.

Select one of the following options:

•

No time of day restrictions:

The user may have Internet privileges at any time.

•

Only allowed from

: The user may only have Internet privileges at the time range set in the time

drop-downs.

Note

:

Optionally

, you can click

Finish

to complete the user profile.

The system accepts all of the

defaults for a user.

2.

Select one of the following options under the “Designate the number of minutes a user can sit idle

before they are automatically logged out from the web” heading:

•

Infinite Time

: The user is never automatically logged out of the Internet.

•

Minutes

: Type a time interval in minutes in the “Minutes” box.

This time represents how long a

user may be idle before automatically being logged out of the Internet.

3.

Click

Next

.

The system responds with the “Associated Computer/Connected Device” window.

Figure 32: Profile Time Settings Window

4.

Please see the next section in this document titled

Associated Computer/Connected Devices

(Optional)

.

Associated Computer/Connected Device (Optional)

Certain users consistently use a particular computer to surf the Internet. To simplify logging in for these

users, you can use the Associated Computer option to automatically log a particular user into the Gateway

with their username and password when they access the Internet from the specified computer.