Netgear FVS318 FVS318 Reference Manual - Page 39

Chapter 4 Protecting Your Network This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the FVS318 Broadband ProSafe VPN Firewall to protect your network. Protecting Access to Your FVS318 VPN Firewall For security reasons, the firewall has its own user name and password. Also, after a period of inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login will automatically disconnect. When prompted, enter admin for the firewall User Name and password for the firewall Password. You can use procedures below to change the firewall's password and the amount of time for the administrator's login timeout. Note: The user name and password are not the same as any user name or password your may use to log in to your Internet connection. NETGEAR recommends that you change this password to a more secure password. The ideal password should contain no dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of both upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Your password can be up to 30 characters. How to Change the Built-In Password 1. Log in to the firewall at its default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1 with its default User Name of admin, default password of password, or using whatever User Name, Password and LAN address you have chosen for the firewall. Protecting Your Network 4-1 M-10146-01