Netgear FVS318N – Prosafe Wireless N VPN Firewall Reference Manual

Bandwidth profiles. After you have a configured a bandwidth profile (see 

The wireless VPN firewall allows you to block the use of certain Internet services by 
computers on your network. This is called service blocking or port filtering.

to block outbound traffic from selected computers that would 
otherwise be allowed by the firewall.

The following table describes the fields that define the rules for outbound traffic and that are 
common to most Outbound Service screens (see 

142, 

149, and 

156). 

The steps to configure outbound rules are described in the following sections:

Service

The service or application to be covered by this rule. If the service 
or application does not display in the list, you need to define it 
using the Services screen (see 

All rules

Action

The action for outgoing connections covered by this rule: 

Any outbound traffic that is not blocked by rules you create 

is allowed by the default rule.

ALLOW rules are useful only if the traffic is already 

covered by a BLOCK rule. That is, you wish to allow a subset of 
traffic that is blocked by another rule. 

All rules