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5.11 Security TL-MR6400 300Mbps Wireless N 4G LTE Router Figure 5-16 The Security menu There are four submenus under the Security menu as shown in Figure 5-16: Basic Security, Advanced Security, Local Management and Remote Management. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. 5.11.1 Basic Security Choose menu "Security → Basic Security", and then you can configure the basic security in the screen as shown in Figure 5-17. Figure 5-17 Basic Security  Firewall - A firewall protects your network from the outside world. Here you can enable or disable the router's firewall. • SPI Firewall - SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection, also known as dynamic packet filtering) helps to prevent cyber attacks by tracking more state per session. It validates that the traffic passing through the session conforms to the protocol. SPI Firewall is enabled by factory default. If you want all the computers on the LAN exposed to the outside world, you can disable it.  VPN - VPN Passthrough must be enabled if you want to allow VPN tunnels using VPN protocols to pass through the router. -102-

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TL-MR6400
300Mbps Wireless N 4G LTE Router
5.11 Security
Figure 5-16 The Security menu
There are four submenus under the Security menu as shown in Figure 5-16:
Basic Security
,
Advanced Security
,
Local Management
and
Remote Management.
Click any of them, and
you will be able to configure the corresponding function.
5.11.1 Basic Security
Choose menu “
Security
→
Basic Security
”, and then you can configure the basic security in
the screen as shown in Figure 5-17.
Figure 5-17
Basic Security
Firewall -
A firewall protects your network from the outside world. Here you can enable or
disable the router’s firewall.
•
SPI Firewall
- SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection, also known as dynamic packet filtering)
helps to prevent cyber attacks by tracking more state per session. It validates that the
traffic passing through the session conforms to the protocol. SPI Firewall is enabled
by factory default. If you want all the computers on the LAN exposed to the outside
world, you can disable it.
VPN -
VPN Passthrough must be enabled if you want to allow VPN tunnels using VPN
protocols to pass through the router.
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