Networking
This is where you check whether your internet connections are working, monitor how much bandwidth is being used, and configure network settings — firewall rules, DHCP, DNS, VPN tunnels, and more.
Click Networking in the sidebar.
Two tabs at the top:
| Tab | Purpose | Who Can See It |
|---|
| Info | Live monitoring — connection status, bandwidth graphs, recent network events. | Everyone with the Network privilege. |
| Settings | Network configuration — ports, routing, firewall, DHCP, DNS, and the HTTP/FTP server settings. Each sub-tab has its own how-to entries. | Administrators only. |
If you only see the Info tab, that's normal — Settings requires administrator access.
What the Abilis Manages on Your Network
The Abilis acts as your network's router, firewall, and service provider all at once.
Through the Networking section you can monitor and configure:
- Multiple WAN connections — cable, fibre, DSL, 4G/LTE. The Abilis can bond several of these into one logical link with Abilis-WAN, splitting traffic packet-by-packet across the lines so a single download can pull from two connections at once. (Different from standard SD-WAN, which routes whole flows down one line at a time.)
- LAN connections — your internal office network, with bandwidth monitoring and Top 5 usage tracking.
- VPN tunnels — secure encrypted links between your offices over the internet.
- Firewall — rules that decide which traffic the Abilis lets through and which it blocks. Internally these are called Access Control Lists (ACL); the GUI uses both terms interchangeably.
- DHCP — automatic IP address assignment for all devices on your network.
- DNS — when a device asks "what's the IP of
example.com?", the Abilis answers. It also remembers recent answers (caching) so the same lookup is much faster the second time.
- NAT — rewrites IP addresses on traffic crossing your router. Lets a whole office share one public IP, and lets you expose specific internal services (a web server, a camera) to the outside via port forwarding.
- IP Shaping — bandwidth throttling. Detects users or devices hogging the line and slows them down so others can keep working. Whitelists let you exempt specific addresses.
- IP Ban — automatic blocking of suspicious IP addresses (brute-force protection).
For step-by-step tasks (set up a VPN, open a port, block a website…), go to the
How-To Guides.