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4.6.3

Domain Filtering

Choose menu “

Security

→

Domain Filtering

”, you can configure the Domain filtering rule in the

next screen (shown in Figure 4-31). The Domain Filtering feature allows you to control access to

certain websites on the Internet by specifying their domains or key words.

Figure 4-31

¾

Effective Time

-

This is the time or the range of time for the entry to take effect. For example,

0800 - 2400, it means that the entry will take effect from 08:00 to 20:00.

¾

Domain Name

-

This is the domain or key word as desired. Leaving the field blank means all

websites on the Internet are prohibited from accessing.

¾

Status

-

This field displays the status,

Enabled

means the rule is effective,

Disabled

means

the rule is ineffective.

To add or modify a Domain Filtering entry:

For example:

if you want to block the PCs on your LAN from accessing websites

www.xxyy.com.cn

,

www.aabbcc.com

and websites with end of .net on the Internet, while no limit

for other websites, you can configure as follows.

Step 1:

Enable the “

Firewall

” and “

Domain Filtering

” on the Firewall screen (show in Figure

4-27).

Step 2:

Click

Add New…

/

Modify

shown in Figure 4-31, you will see a new screen shown in

Figure 4-32.

Step 3:

Enter the “

Effective time

” that the rule will take effect, enter the “

Domain Name

” as

shown in Figure 4-32.

Step 4:

Select the “

Status

” for the rule as shown in the next screen.

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Figure 4-32

Step 5:

Finally, click

Save

to make the rule take effect.

Step 6:

Go to

Step 2

to complete the other rules continually.

After you finish the configurations, you will see the rules in the table below:

Figure 4-33

)

Note:

Before adding an IP Address Filtering entry, you should enable the Firewall and the IP Address

Filtering function first (shown in Figure 4-27).

Other configurations for the entries as shown in Figure 4-28:

Click the

Delete

button to delete the entry.

Click the

Enable All

button to enable all the entries.

Click the

Disable All

button to disable all the entries.

Click the

Delete All

button to delete all the entries.

Click the

Previous

button to view the information in the previous screen,

click the

Next

button to

view the information in the next screen.

4.6.4

MAC Filtering

Choose menu “

Security

→

MAC Filtering

”, you can configure the MAC Address filtering rule in

the next screen (shown in Figure 4-34). The MAC Address Filtering feature allows you to control

access to the Internet by users on your local network based on their MAC addresses.

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Figure 4-34

¾

MAC Address

-

.This is the PC’S MAC address which is controlled by the rule, its format of is

XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX (X is any hexadecimal digit). For example: 00-0E-AE-B0-00-0B.

¾

Description -

This is the description about the PC, Fox example: John’s PC.

¾

Status

-

This field displays the status,

Enabled

means the rule is effective,

Disabled

means

the rule is ineffective.

To add or modify a Domain Filtering entry:

Fox example:

If you want to block the PCs with MAC addresses 00-0A-EB-00-07-BE and

00-0A-EB-00-07-5F to access the Internet, you can configure as follows.

Step 1:

Enable the “

Firewall

” and “

MAC Address Filtering

” on the Firewall screen (show in

Figure 4-27). And then specify the Default MAC Address Filtering Rule "Deny these PCs

with enabled rules to access the Internet".

Step 2:

Click

Add New…

/

Modify

shown in Figure 4-34, you will see a new screen shown in

Figure 4-35.

Step 3:

Enter the appropriate MAC address and descriptions, then select the status as shown in

Figure 4-35.

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Figure 4-35

Step 4:

Finally, click

Save

to make the rule take effect.

Step 5:

Go to

Step 2

to complete the other rules continually.

After you finish the configurations, you will see the rules in the table below:

Figure 4-36

)

Note:

Before adding a MAC Address Filtering entry, you should enable the Firewall and the MAC

Address Filtering function first (shown in Figure 4-27).

Other configurations for the entries as shown in Figure 4-28:

Click the

Delete

button to delete the entry.

Click the

Enable All

button to enable all the entries.

Click the

Disable All

button to disable all the entries.

Click the

Delete All

button to delete all the entries.

Click the

Previous

button to view the information in the previous screen,

click the

Next

button to

view the information in the next screen.

4.6.5

Screen

Choose menu “

Security

→

Screen

”, you can configure the functions below to protect the router

from being attacked in the next two screens.

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Figure 4-37

¾

Region -

This option used to select the specifically area from which the packets will be

monitored by the next settings.

¾

Scan Attack Defence

•

IP Scan:

During the specific time, if a computer (identified by a particular source IP

address) transmits packets to at least ten different computers (identified by different

destination IP addresses), then the source IP address will be deemed to make IP Attacks.

And the Router will start up the blocking function immediately.