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TL-WR841N/TL-WR841ND Wireless N Router Figure 4-29 UPnP Setting ¾ Current UPnP Status - UPnP can be enabled or disabled by clicking the Enable or Disable button. As allowing this may present a risk to security, this feature is disabled by default. ¾ Current UPnP Settings List - This table displays the current UPnP information. • App Description -The description provided by the application in the UPnP request • External Port - External port, which the router opened for the application. • Protocol - Shows which type of protocol is opened. • Internal Port - Internal port, which the router opened for local host. • IP Address - The UPnP device that is currently accessing the router. • Status - The port's status displayed here. "Enabled" means that port is still active. Otherwise, the port is inactive. Click Refresh to update the Current UPnP Settings List. 4.9 Security Figure 4-30 The Security menu There are four submenus under the Security menu (shown in Figure 4-30): Firewall, IP Filtering, Domain Filtering and MAC Filtering. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. 4.9.1 Firewall Choose menu "Security→Firewall", you can control the general firewall switch in the firewall page (shown in Figure 4-31). The default setting for the switch is off. When the general firewall switch is off, even if IP Address Filtering, DNS Filtering and MAC Filtering are enabled, their settings are ineffective. 43

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TL-WR841N/TL-WR841ND
Wireless N Router
43
Figure 4-29 UPnP Setting
¾
Current UPnP Status -
UPnP can be enabled or disabled by clicking the
Enable
or
Disable
button. As allowing this may present a risk to security, this feature is disabled by default.
¾
Current UPnP Settings List -
This table displays the current UPnP information.
•
App Description -
The description provided by the application in the UPnP request
•
External Port
-
External port, which the router opened for the application.
•
Protocol -
Shows which type of protocol is opened.
•
Internal Port
-
Internal port, which the router opened for local host.
•
IP Address
-
The UPnP device that is currently accessing the router.
•
Status -
The port’s status displayed here. “Enabled” means that port is still active.
Otherwise, the port is inactive.
Click
Refresh
to update the Current UPnP Settings List.
4.9
Security
Figure 4-30 The Security menu
There are four submenus under the Security menu (shown in Figure 4-30):
Firewall
,
IP Filtering,
Domain Filtering
and
MAC Filtering.
Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the
corresponding function.
4.9.1 Firewall
Choose menu “
Security
→
Firewall
”, you can control the general firewall switch in the firewall
page (shown in Figure 4-31). The default setting for the switch is off. When the general firewall
switch is off, even if IP Address Filtering, DNS Filtering and MAC Filtering are enabled, their
settings are ineffective.