NBG-418N v2 User’s Guide
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Firewall
12.1 Overview
Use these screens to enable and configure the firewall that protects your NBG-418N v2 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 78
Default Firewall Action
12.2 What You Can Do
• Use the
General
screen
to enable or disable the NBG-418N v2’s firewall (
• Use the
Services
screen to enable or disable ICMP and VPN passthrough features (
).
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