Netgear FVS338 FVS338 Reference Manual - Page 133
Router and Network Management, Performance Management
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Chapter 6 Router and Network Management This chapter describes how to use the network management features of your ProSafe VPN Firewall 50. These features can be found by clicking on the appropriate heading in the Main Menu of the browser interface. The ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 offers many tools for managing the network traffic to optimize its performance. You can also control administrator access, be alerted to important events requiring prompt action, monitor the firewall status, perform diagnostics, and manage the firewall configuration file. Performance Management Performance management consists of controlling the traffic through the VPN firewall so that the necessary traffic gets through when there is a bottleneck and either reducing unnecessary traffic or rescheduling some traffic to low-peak times to prevent bottlenecks from occurring in the first place. The VPN firewall has the necessary features and tools to help the network manager accomplish these goals. VPN Firewall Features That Reduce Traffic Features of the VPN firewall that can be called upon to decrease WAN-side loading are as follows: • Service Blocking • Block Sites • Source MAC Filtering Router and Network Management 6-1 v1.0, March 2008