CONFIGURE AND T EST THE R3000 UNDERSTAND THE MOST COMMON AND USEFUL FEATURES4 M86 S ECURITY, R3000 E VALUATION GUIDECONFIGURE AND TEST THE R3000Understand the most common and useful featuresOne of the advantages of a hardware appliance, in addition to its compatibility andextremely low profile on the network, is its ease of use. Configuration of the R3000can seem disarmingly simple at times, but when the hardware and software aredesigned to work together, the levels of complication decrease and robust powerand efficiency significantly increase.One of the challenges of simplicity is that it offers little variation in the appearanceof the interface used to administer the R3000. Spending only a short time config-uring and customizing the many capabilities of the R3000 quickly overcomes anyconfusion related to this simple similarity, and the following exercises are meant toprovide a very explicit and easy-to-follow way to become comfortable with theadministrator console.This section of the evaluation manual is to guide the evaluator, in a linear fashion,through the most common and useful features of the R3000, starting with theelements that should be configured first and continuing with features that requirean understanding of the steps learned while configuring those first elements. Onceone gets the basic flow of how filtering options are set up, it becomes quite simpleto quickly make adjustments, if needed. And, the R3000’s incredible capacity to beconfigured once and left alone, or to support extensive customization and special-ization, make it the most versatile and network friendly filter on the market.