ZyXEL Communications Prestige 128L, User Manual

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68 Filter Configuration
Prestige’s Filter Structure
You can configure up to twelve filter sets with six rules in each set.
Therefore, your Prestige allows you to customize up to 72 filter rules
(12 x 6).
When implementing these filter sets, you can link up to four of the filter
sets together to screen the data packet. Therefore, with each filter set
having up to six rules, you can have a maximum of 24 rules active for a
single filtering application.
Configuring a Filter Set
In order to distinguish between the 12 filter sets, each filter set should
have a name or some comments. You can edit these comments in the
following way.
1. From the Main Menu, select option 21. Filter Set Configuration.
This will bring you to Menu 21 - Filter Set Configuration.
2. From this menu, you can choose from among the twelve filter sets.
Select the filter set you wish to configure (1-12).
This will bring you to the Edit Comments field. Whatever the comments
are for that filter set will be displayed in this field. You can edit the
comments you wish to use to identify that filter set.
Once you have completed filling in the Edit Comments field, press
ENTER at the message: Press ENTER to Confirm ... to confirm your
selections, or press ESC at any time to cancel your selections. The new
information will now be displayed in the read-only section of Menu 21 -
Filter Set Configuration as shown below: