5.2 Web site Filtering

Introduction

Web site filtering allows you to restrict access to specific web sites.

Strategies

There are two strategies you can follow:

<

Allow access to all web sites and manually specify a number of web sites that may be accessed.

- or -

<

Deny access to all web site and manually specify which web sites may not be accessed.

Procedure

Proceed as follows:

1

Enable Web site filtering and specify a default action.

2

Configure the exceptions.

Enable Web site filtering and specify a default action

Proceed as follows:

1

Browse to the Thomson Gateway Web Interface.

2

On the Toolbox menu, click Web Site Filtering.

3

On the Navigation Bar, click Configure.

4

Select the Use Address Based Filter check box.

5

In the Action for Unknown Sites, select the action you want to use by default.

6

Click Apply.

Configure the exceptions

You can now:

<

Denying access to a specific Web site

<

Allowing access to a specific Web site

<

Redirecting a Web site

<

Redirecting all Web sites