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Restart Router
Click
Restart
with option
Current Settings
to reboot your router (and restore your last saved
configuration).
If you wish to restart the router using the factory default settings (for example, after a firmware
upgrade or if you have saved an incorrect configuration), select
Factory Default Settings
to reset
to factory default settings.
You may also reset your router to factory settings by holding the small Reset pinhole button on the
back of your router in for 10-12 seconds whilst the router is turned on.
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User Management
In order to prevent unauthorized access to your router’s configuration interface, it requires all users
to login with a password. You can set up multiple user accounts, each with their own password.
You are able to
Edit
existing users and
Create
new users who are able to access the device’s
configuration interface. Once you have clicked on
Edit,
you are shown the following options:
You can change the user’s
password
, whether their account is active and
Valid
, as well as add a
comment to each user account. These options are the same when creating a user account, with
the exception that once created you cannot change the username. You cannot delete the default
admin account, however you can delete any other created accounts by clicking
Delete
when
editing the user.
You are strongly advised to change the password on the default “
admin
” account when you
receive your router, and any time you reset your configuration to Factory Defaults.
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Firewall and Access Control
Your router includes a full SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) firewall for controlling Internet access from
your LAN, as well as helping to prevent attacks from hackers. In addition to this, when using NAT
(Network Address Translation. Please see the
WAN
configuration section for more details on NAT) the
router acts as a “natural” Internet firewall, as all PCs on your LAN will use private IP addresses that
cannot be directly accessed from the Internet.
Firewall
: Prevents access from outside your network. The router provides three levels of security
support:
NAT natural firewall
: This masks LAN users’ IP addresses which are invisible to outside users on the
Internet, making it much more difficult for a hacker to target a machine on your network. This natural
firewall is on when NAT function is enabled.
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When using Virtual Servers your PCs will be exposed to the degree
specified in your Virtual Server settings provided the ports specified are
opened in your firewall packet filter settings.
Firewall Security and Policy (General Settings)
: Inbound direction of Packet Filter rules to prevent
unauthorized computers or applications accessing your local network from the Internet.
Intrusion Detection
: Enable Intrusion Detection to detect, prevent and log malicious attacks.
Access Control
: Prevents access from PCs on your local network:
Firewall Security and Policy (General Settings)
: Outbound direction of Packet Filter rules to prevent
unauthorized computers or applications accessing the Internet.
URL Filter
: To block PCs on your local network from unwanted websites.
You can find six items under the
Firewall
section:
General Settings, Packet Filter, Intrusion
Detection, URL Filter
and
Firewall Log.
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General Settings
You can choose not to enable Firewall, to add all filter rules by yourself, or enable the Firewall
using preset filter rules and modify the port filter rules as required. The Packet Filter is used to filter
packets based-on Applications (Port) or IP addresses.
There are four options when you enable the Firewall, they are:
~
All blocked/User-defined
: no pre-defined port or address filter rules by default, meaning that
all inbound (Internet to LAN) and outbound (LAN to Internet) packets will be blocked. Users
have to add their own filter rules for further access to the Internet.
~
High/Medium/Low security level:
the predefined port filter rules for High, Medium and Low
security are displayed in Port Filters of Packet Filter.
Select either
High, Medium
or
Low
security level
to enable the Firewall. The only difference
between these three security levels is the preset port filter rules in the Packet Filter. Firewall
functionality is the same for all levels; it is only the list of preset port filters that changes between
each setting. For more detailed on level of preset port filter information, refer to
Table 1:
Predefined Port Filter
.
If you choose of the preset security levels and then add custom filters, you may temporarily disable
the firewall and recover your custom filter settings by re-selecting the same security level.
The “
Block WAN Request
” is a stand-alone function and not relate to whether security enable or
disable. Mostly it is for preventing any scan tools from WAN site by hacker.
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Any remote user who is attempting to perform this action may result in blocking
all the accesses to configure and manage of the device from the Internet.
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Packet Filter
This function is only available when the Firewall is enabled and one of these four security levels is
chosen (All blocked, High, Medium and Low).
The predefined port filter rules in the Packet Filter
must modify accordingly to the level of Firewall, which is selected.
See
Table1: Predefined Port
Filter
for more detailed information.
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