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Firewall

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from a remote location via the Internet. There are six submenus under the Security menu (shown in Figure 4-34): Firewall, IP Address Filtering, Domain Filtering, MAC Address Filtering, Remote Management and Advanced Security. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below. Figure 4-34 The Security menu 4.10.1 Firewall Selecting Security > Firewall will allow you to turn on or off the general firewall switch as shown in Figure 4-35. The default setting for the switch is off. Turning the general firewall switch to off will disable IP Filtering, Domain Filtering and MAC Filtering even if their individual settings are enabled. Figure 4-35 Firewall Settings ¾ Enable Firewall - Check this box to enable Firewall. ¾ Enable IP Address Filtering - Check this box to enable IP Address Filtering. There are two default filtering rules for IP Address Filtering: Allow or Deny the packets specified to pass through the router. ¾ Enable Domain Filtering - Check this box to enable Domain Filtering. 44

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from a remote location via the Internet.
There are six submenus under the Security menu (shown in Figure 4-34):
Firewall
,
IP Address
Filtering
,
Domain Filtering
,
MAC Address Filtering
,
Remote Management
and
Advanced
Security
. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The
detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below.
Figure 4-34 The Security menu
4.10.1
Firewall
Selecting
Security > Firewall
will allow you to turn on or off the general firewall switch as shown
in Figure 4-35. The default setting for the switch is off. Turning the general firewall switch to off will
disable IP Filtering, Domain Filtering and MAC Filtering even if their individual settings are
enabled.
Figure 4-35 Firewall Settings
¾
Enable Firewall -
Check this box to enable Firewall.
¾
Enable IP Address Filtering -
Check this box to enable IP Address Filtering. There are two
default filtering rules for IP Address Filtering: Allow or Deny the packets specified to pass
through the router.
¾
Enable Domain Filtering -
Check this box to enable Domain Filtering.