Wireless Cable Voice Gateway Model CVG834G Reference Manual
Protecting Your Network 3-3
v2.0, November 2007
Blocking Keywords, Sites and Services
The gateway provides a variety of options for blocking Internet content and communications to the
gateway. You can control access to Internet content by screening for keywords within Web
addresses; you also can block access to all sites except those that are explicitly allowed. Blocking
options include:
• Blocking access from your LAN to Internet locations that contain keywords that your specify.
• Blocking access to Web sites (domains) that you specify as off-limits.
• Allowing access to only Web sites (domains) that you specify as allowed.
You can also block access to the Internet by a specific computer based on the hardware MAC
address of that computer. Blocking access to the Internet based on the hardware MAC address of
the computer or wireless adapter is described in “Using MAC Filtering to Block Access” on
page 3-6.
Blocking Keywords and Domains
You can restrict access to Internet content based on Web address keywords and domain names. A
domain name is the name of a particular Web site. For example, for the address www.netgear.com,
the domain name is NETGEAR.com.
To configure Block Sites:
1. Log in to the gateway by entering the default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1, the default
user name of admin, and default password of password or use whatever password and LAN
address you have chosen for the gateway.
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