Netgear FVS318N User Manual

Click Apply to save your settings.

To display a report of the Internet traffic by type, click the Traffic by Protocol option arrow in 
the upper right of the Broadband Traffic Meter screen. The Traffic by Protocol pop-up screen 
displays. The incoming and outgoing volume of traffic for each protocol and the total volume 
of traffic are displayed. Traffic counters are updated in MBs; the counter starts only when 
traffic passed is at least 1 MB. In addition, the pop-up screen displays the traffic meter’s start 
and end dates. If you did not configure the traffic meter, the start date is blank.

Configure Logging, Alerts, and Event Notifications

You can configure the wireless VPN firewall to log routing events such as dropped and 
accepted packets, to log system events such as a change of time by an NTP server, secure 
login attempts, and reboots, and to log other events. You can also schedule logs to be sent to 
the administrator and enable logs to be sent to a syslog server on the network. 

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Select Monitoring > Firewall Logs & E-mail. The Firewall Logs & E-mail screen 
displays:

Block Traffic

Select one of the following radio buttons to specify which action the wireless VPN 
firewall performs when the traffic limit has been reached:

• Block All Traffic. All incoming and outgoing Internet and email traffic is blocked. 

•  Block All Traffic Except E-Mail. All incoming and outgoing Internet traffic is 

blocked, but incoming and outgoing email traffic is still allowed.

Send e-mail alert

An email alert is sent when traffic is blocked. Ensure that emailing of logs is enabled 
on the Firewall Logs & E-mail screen (see