Making your parental control settings – ARRIS TG2472G-NA User Guide User Manual

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Chapter 5: Installing and Connecting your Telephony Gateway

Linux: open a shell window and type

/sbin/ifconfig

(and press Enter). The wireless

interface is eth1 (unless there is no Ethernet adapter, in which case the interface is eth0).

Making Your Parental Control Settings

Follow these steps to set up your Parental Controls:

1. Access and log into the wireless configuration interface as explained in

Accessing the

Configuration Interface

(page 27).

2. Click the

Firewall

tab and then click

Parental Controls

in the side menu to display the

Parental Controls screen.

3. Check the

Enable Parental Controls

checkbox and click the

Apply

button.

4. Configure any or all of the following parental controls:

Trusted MAC Addresses:

Enter the MAC addresses of any “trusted” computers on the network and click the

Apply

button. You can add two trusted computers. Once added, these trusted computers will

not be affected by the parental control settings. For example, you may want the

computers of the father and mother to be trusted, while the childrens’ computers have

parental controls in effect.

Note: Refer to the

Finding the MAC Address of a Computer

(page 27) for information on

determining the MAC address of your computer.

Keyword and Web Site Filtering:

You can add a list of keywords and web sites that you want to block. To add a keyword

or web site to the list, click the respective

Add

button. To delete a keyword or web site

from the list, first click its check box and then click the

Delete

button.

Release 24 STANDARD 1.1 January 2015

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