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* Supervision & management workstation with an ordinary browser

* Functions requiring a server:
o Content analysis
o Authentication / Directory / DHCP, etc, servers
o Log analysis

* Functions for which a router or an network device is sufficient
o IP filtering
o Dynamic filtering
o Stateful filtering
o Log generation
o Management trough WWW server
o User authentication with an external authentication server

* Many functions which today require a server could soon be included in embedded boxes
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