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Parameters

Description

Client PC Description

Please input any text to describe this IP address, up to 16

alphanumerical characters.

Client PC IP address

Please input the starting IP address in the left field, and input the

end IP address in the right field to define a range of IP addresses,

or just input the IP address in the left field to define a single IP

address.

Client Service

Please check all services you want to allow or deny this IP

address to use, you can check multiple services.

Protocol

If the service you need is not listed above, you can create a new

service on your own. Please select TCP or UDP, if you’re not

sure, please select “Both”.

Port Range

Please input the port range of new service here. If you want to

specify port 80 to 90, please input “80-90”; if you want to apply

this rule on a single port, just input the port number, such as 80.

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Add

When you finish with all settings, please click “Add” to save

settings, you’ll be brought back to previous menu, and the rule

you just set will appear in current IP filtering table.

After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button.

If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button.

After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures,

or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30

seconds while router is rebooting).

3.4.2 MAC Filtering

If you want to restrict users from accessing certain Internet applications/services (e.g. Internet

websites, email, FTP etc.) by their MAC addresses, then you can set up the filtering rules here.

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Parameters

Description

Enable MAC Filtering

Check this box to enable the MAC filtering function. Please

select “Deny” or “Allow” to decide the behavior of MAC filtering

table. If you select Deny, all MAC addresses listed in filtering

table will be denied from connecting to the network; if you select

Allow, only MAC addresses listed in filtering table will be able to

connect to the network, and all other network devices are

rejected.

Client PC MAC Address

Input the MAC address of the devices you want to filter in format

‘xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx’.

Computer Name

Pull down the menu and all the computers connected to the

router will be listed here. You can easily select the computer

name without checking the IP address of the computer. If you do

not see any computer after you click on the drop-down menu,

select the option “Refresh” and you will be given a list of

computers that are connected to your network

Comment

You can input any text here as the comment of this MAC

address, like ‘ROOM 2A Computer’.

Add

Click “Add” button to add the MAC address and associated

comment to the MAC address filtering table.

Reset

Remove all inputted values.

Current

MAC

Filtering

Table

From the table, you can check each MAC Address filter setting.

Delete

If you want to delete a specific MAC address entry, check the

‘select’ box of the MAC address you want to delete, then click

‘Delete’ button. (You can select more than one MAC addresses).

Delete All

If you want to delete all MAC addresses listed here, please click

‘Delete All’ button.

Reset

You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all.

3.4.3 URL/Keyword Filtering

You can block access to certain websites or web contents from local PCs by entering a full URL address

or just keywords about the web contents. This filter can help parents to manage the Internet usage for

their children (i.e. Parental Control).

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Parameter

Description

Enable URL Filtering

Enable/Disable URL Blocking.

URL/Keyword

You can enter the full URL address of a website or any

keyword

of certain web contents you want to block.

Current URL Blocking Table

From the table, you can check each URL filter setting.

Delete

If you want to delete a setting, check the ‘select’ box of the

setting you want to delete, then click ‘Delete’ button. (You can

select more than one setting).

Delete All

If you want to delete all settings listed here, please click ‘Delete

All’ button.

Reset

You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all.

After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button.

If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button.

After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures,

or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30

seconds while router is rebooting).

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3.5 Security

3.5.1 Firewall

Excepting NAT, this router also provides firewall function to block malicious intruders from

accessing your computers on local network. These functions include inbound attack prevention,

and block outbound traffics.

The Wireless 150 Router AR570W has built in

SPI Firewall

which is a type of firewall that

inspects incoming data packets to make sure they correspond to an outgoing request.

Unsolicited and possibly harmful packets are rejected. It is suggested to keep SPI Firewall

enabled.

When you enable “Discard Ping from WAN”, you router will not respond to a “ping” request or to

its WAN interface.

Please select “Enable” or “Disable to enable or disable SPI Firewall and Discard Ping from WAN

function of this router. Click “Apply” to save the settings you made.

After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button.

If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button.

After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures,

or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30

seconds while router is rebooting).