EDIMAX BR6428n Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save

changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes. After you click

‘Apply’ button, you’ll see the following message:

Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this

requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal

and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other

settings later.

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2 URL Blocking

If you want to prevent computers in local network from accessing certain website (like

pornography, violence, or anything you want to block), you can use this function to stop

computers in local network from accessing the site you defined here.

This function is useful for parents and company managers.

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Item Name

Description

Enable URL Blocking

Check this box to enforce URL Blocking,

uncheck it to disable URL Blocking.

URL/Keyword

Input the URL (host name or IP address of

website, like

http://www.blocked

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site.com

or

http://11.22.33.44

), or the keyword which is

contained in URL (like pornography, cartoon,

stock, or anything).

Add

Click ‘Add’ button to add the URL / keyword to

the URL / Keyword filtering table.

Reset

Click ‘Reset’ to remove the value you inputted

in URL/Keyword field.

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All existing URLs will be displayed in ‘Current URL Blocking Table’:

If you want to delete a specific URL/Keyword entry, check the ‘select’ box of the MAC

address you want to delete, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button. (You can select more than

one URL/Keyword). If you want to delete all URL/Keyword listed here, please click ‘Delete

All’ button, or you can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all URL/Keywords.

When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save

changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes. After you click

‘Apply’ button, you’ll see the following message:

Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this

requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal

and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other

settings later.

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3 DoS

Denial of Service (DoS) is a common attack measure, by transmitting a great amount of data

or request to your Internet IP address and server, the Internet connection will become very

slow, and server may stop responding because it is not capable to handle too much traffics.

This router has a built

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in DoS attack prevention mechanism; when you activate it, the router

will stop the DoS attack for you:

Here lists four kinds of DoS attacks, please select the type of DoS attack you wish this

broadband router to protect, and you can select multiple types of attacks.

The descriptions of every DoS attack is listed below:

Item Name

Description

Ping of Death

Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will

cause certain computer to stop responding.

Check this box and the router will filter this

kind of packet out.

Discard Ping From

WAN

Ping is a common and useful tool to know

the connection status of a specified remote

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network device, but some malicious intruder

will try to fill your network bandwidth with a

lot of PING request data packet, to make your

internet connection become very slow, even

unusable. Check this box and the router will

ignore all inbound PING request, but when you

activate this function, you will not be able to

ping your own router from internet, too.

Port Scan

Some malicious intruder will try to use a ‘port

scanner’ to know how many ports of your

Internet IP address are open, and they can

collect a lot of valuable information by doing

so. Check this box and the router will block all

traffics which are trying to scan your Internet

IP address.

Sync Flood

This is another kind of attack, which uses a lot

of fake connection request to consume the

memory of your server, and try to make your

server become unusable. Check this box and

the router will filter this kind of traffic out.

If you need to specify the details of every DoS attack, please click ‘Advanced Settings’

button, and the following settings will appear:

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