About LAN Settings

A fundamental difference between a local area network (LAN) and the Internet is the level of trust you can have in each. A LAN used in the home or an office is generally comprised of “friendly” computers, computers belonging to or operated by other family members or fellow workers.

All computers on a LAN can be assigned with three levels of access to your computer:

So when you add new network address to the LAN settings you can assign that address (or network) with the access level mentioned above.

Note

Please note that Outpost Firewall plug-ins are independent from the Trusted access level. For example, even if we add www.agnitum.com to the Trusted network addresses, Outpost Firewall plug-ins will still block banners, active content and other things from this site regardless.

 
Related Links

Detecting your Local Area Network

Configuring network settings

Adding network or host

Removing remote network or host