User`s guide

MN-700 Base Station Configuration Guide 27
The following illustration shows the Client Filtering page of the Base Station Management Tool.
To enable client filtering
1. Open the Base Station Management Tool, and then click Security.
2. On the Security menu, click Client Filtering.
3. In the appropriate box, type the IP address of the client device whose access to the Internet you want to control.
4. In the Outbound port(s) boxes, type the outbound port(s) and select the protocol for the data that you want to
control. For example, if you want to control Web browsing, specify Port 80 and select Protocol TCP.
5. In the appropriate boxes, specify the date and time range when you want to block access to this data. If you want
to filter access on a particular day, for example, every Sunday, enter the same time and the same date for the
start and end period. If you want to block access all the time, click Always.
6. Click Add to add this filter to the table, and then select the Block check box next to the entry to enable client
filtering. At any time, you can clear the check box to turn off the filter.
Parental Controls
You can use parental controls to prevent computers on your network from accessing specific Web sites or Web
content. For example, you can establish a filter so that your children cannot access any Web site from their
computer with the term “x-rated” in the domain name.
You can also use parental controls to ensure that computers on your network can only access certain Web sites or
Web content. This may be useful, for example, if you want your employees only to access Web sites related to
company business from their work computers. The filters you create will apply only to the computers you specify,
not to all computers on your network.
To configure parental controls, you must know the private IP address assigned to the computer(s) where you want
to control access to the Internet. For optimal performance of parental controls, it is recommended that you assign a
static IP addresses to each of the client devices whose access to the Internet you want to control. For information
about assigning a static IP address to a client, see Broadband Network Utility Help.
If you choose not to assign static IP addresses, you can determine the IP address assigned to the client computer
by checking the DHCP client list on the Home page of the Base Station Management Tool.