NETGEAR FVS318N

LAN Configuration
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ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N
• A PC is identified by its MAC address—not its IP address. The network database uses the
MAC address to identify each PC or device. Therefore, changing a PC’s IP address does
not affect any restrictions applied to that PC.
• Contr
ol over PCs can be assigned to groups and individuals:
- Y
ou can assign PCs to groups (see Manage the Network Database on this page) and
apply restrictions (outbound rules and inbound rules) to each group (see Rules to
Block or Allow Specific Kinds of Traffic on p
age 108).
- Y
ou can select groups that are allowed access to URLs that you have blocked for
other groups, or the other way around, block access to URLs that you have allowed
access to for groups (see Configure Content Filtering on p
age 142).
- If necessary
, you can also create firewall rules to apply to a single PC (see Enable
Source MAC Filtering on p
age 147). Because the MAC address is used to identify
each PC, users cannot avoid these restriction
s by changing their IP address.
Manage the Network Database
You can view the network database, manually add or remove database entries, and edit
database entries.
To view the network database, select Network Configuration > LAN Settings > LAN
Groups (IPv4). The LAN Groups (IPv4) screen displays. (The following figure shows some
manually added devices in the Known PCs and Devices table as an example.)
Figure 31.