User's Manual

USER MANUAL

Peplink Balance Series

19.1.2 Web Blocking

(Available on Peplink Balance 305 and 380+)

19.1.2.1 Web Blocking

Enter an appropriate website address and Peplink Balance will block and disallow

LAN/PPTP/SpeedFusion

peer clients to access these websites. Exception can be added in the

following sections - and .

You may enter the wild card ".*" at the end of a domain name to block any web site with a host name

having the domain name in the middle.

For example, If you enter "foobar.*," then "www.foobar.com," "www.foobar.co.jp," or "foobar.co.uk" will be

blocked.

Placing the wild card in any other position is not supported.

The Peplink Balance will inspect and look for blocked domain names on all HTTP traffic. Secure web

(HTTPS) traffic is not supported.

19.1.2.2 Exempted User Groups

Check and select pre-defined user group(s) who can be exempted from the access blocking rules. User

groups can be defined at QoS> User Groups section. Please refer to section for details.

19.1.2.3 Exempted Subnets

With the subnet defined in the field, clients on the particular subnet(s) can be exempted from the access

blocking rules.