How to Configure Internet Access restrictions ?
In some organizations or companies, there might be policy to restrict Internet access. The idea behind this is that to either block or restrict access to Internet site or to unknown/unapproved Internet application unrelated to business requirement or even disruptive to business objectives. Typical approach of controlling and restricting such access is to deploy proxy server between internal network and the Internet gateway. This proxy server could be some Windows or Unix server, or vendor-specific proxy appliance such as BlueCoat ProxySG. In smaller networks, organizations, or companies; the proxy appliance deployment could be either financial or technical burden. In this case, this kind of network management might consider other alternatives such as using either router or firewall to do the restriction. Following is the discussion. Router Approach A solution which uses the router to filter Internet access (web traffic), allowing what is defined to go through and deny all others. Optio
