Motorola WR850G User Guide - Page 40
Field, Description, Operation Mode, Router, Access Point, Firewall, Enabled, Disabled, Server
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Configuration Section 3 Field Operation Mode: (continued) Firewall: (ADVANCED) Description • Dynamically assigning IP addresses to devices on your local network, simplifying network set-up, using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). This is the WR850's built-in local area network DHCP server (which is configured on the LAN Page). • Routing and/or filtering data based on the protocol used and/or its content, protecting your broadband connection and your local network from undesired access. This is the WR850's built-in firewall (which can be configured with specific filters on the FILTERS Page, and with specific routing "rules" on the ROUTING Page). If all of these router functions are disabled, the WR850 simply operates as a combination of a wireless access point and a wired 5-port Ethernet switch (the physical port labeled "WAN" becomes the fifth "switched" port, along with the four "LAN" ports). With router functions disabled, all WR850 configuration options that use the IP addresses of local network devices are disabled (with any entries into those fields ignored). However, all WR850 configuration options that use Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of local network devices - physical addresses uniquely assigned by manufacturers to any network device -- are still available. • Selecting Router enables router functions. • Selecting Access Point disables router functions. NOTE: If you wish to enable some router functions and not all, select Router and then disable specific router functions via their respective configuration options that follow. For example, if you wish to use the firewall but have no need for the DHCP server, select Router here and then disable DHCP Server on the LAN Page. FACTORY DEFAULT: Router Enables the built-in firewall, to protect your router and local network from unauthorized access from the Internet. • Selecting Enabled engages the built-in firewall. • Selecting Disabled disengages the built-in firewall. NOTE: It is recommended that the firewall be disabled only if you are using alternative firewall protection software. NOTE: Firewall is greyed out to Disabled if Operation Mode (above) is set to Access Point. FACTORY DEFAULT: Enabled WR850 3-7