NETGEAR ProSafe FVS124G - Manual (Page 141)

Reference Manual for the ProSafe VPN Firewall 25 with 4 Gigabit LAN and Dual WAN Ports
Router and Network Management 8-7
202-10085-01, March 2005
– After a PC has finished using a Port Triggering application, there is a time-out period
before the application can be used by another PC. This is required because the firewall
cannot be sure when the application has terminated.
See “Port Triggering” on page 6-28 for the procedure on how to use this feature.
VPN Tunnels
The VPN firewall permits up to 200 VPN tunnels at a time. Each tunnel requires extensive
processing for encryption and authentication.
See Chapter 7, “Virtual Private Networking ” for the procedure on how to use this feature.
Using QoS to Shift the Traffic Mix
The QoS priority settings determine the priority and, in turn, the quality of service for the traffic
passing through the firewall. The QoS is set individually for each service.
• You can accept the default priority defined by the service itself by observing its QoS setting.
• You can override its default setting to give the service higher or lower priority than it
otherwise would have.
You will not change the WAN bandwidth used by changing any QoS priority settings. But you will
change the mix of traffic through the WAN ports by granting some services a higher priority than
others. The quality of a service is impacted by its QoS setting, however.
See “Quality of Service (QoS) Priorities” on page 6-18 for the procedure on how to use this
feature.
Tools for Traffic Management
The FVS124G ProSafe VPN Firewall 25 with 4 Gigabit LAN and Dual WAN Ports includes
several tools that can be used to monitor the traffic conditions of the firewall and control who has
access to the Internet and the types of traffic they are allowed to have. See
“Monitoring” on
page 8-14 for a discussion of the tools.