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CHAPTER 17 Firewall 17.1 Overview Use these screens to enable and configure the firewall that protects your NBG6716 and your LAN from unwanted or malicious traffic. Enable the firewall to protect your LAN computers from attacks by hackers on the Internet and control access between the LAN and WAN. By default the firewall: • allows traffic that originates from your LAN computers to go to all of the networks. • blocks traffic that originates on the other networks from going to the LAN. The following figure illustrates the default firewall action. User A can initiate an IM (Instant Messaging) session from the LAN to the WAN (1). Return traffic for this session is also allowed (2). However other traffic initiated from the WAN is blocked (3 and 4). Figure 89 Default Firewall Action LAN 1 A 2 WAN 3 4 17.1.1 What You Can Do • Use the General screen to enable or disable the NBG6716's firewall (Section 17.2 on page 145). • Use the Servicesscreen enable service blocking, enter/delete/modify the services you want to block and the date/time you want to block them (Section 17.3 on page 145). 17.1.2 What You Need To Know The following terms and concepts may help as you read through this chapter. NBG6716 User's Guide 143