Chapter 27
Remote Management
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If you want your device to respond to pings and requests for unauthorized services, you
will also need to configure the firewall accordingly by disabling SPI.
Figure 93
Maintenance > Remote MGMT > ICMP
Table 83
Maintenance > Remote MGMT > ICMP
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Respond to Ping
on
The Router will not respond to any incoming Ping requests when
Disable
is selected.
Select
LAN
to reply to incoming LAN Ping requests.
Select
WAN
to reply to incoming
WAN Ping requests. Otherwise select
LAN & WAN
to reply to both incoming LAN and
WAN Ping requests.
Secured Client IP
Address
A secured client is a “trusted” computer that is allowed to send Ping requests to the
Router.
Select
All
to allow any computer to send Ping requests to the Router.
Choose
Range
to just allow the computers with an IP address in the range that you
specify to send Ping requests to the Router.
27.8
SSH Screen
You can use Secure SHell (SSH) to securely access theRouter’s command line interface. Specify
which interfaces allow SSH access and from which IP address the access can come. SSH is a secure
communication protocol that combines authentication and data encryption to provide secure
encrypted communication between two hosts over an unsecured network.