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8 FIREWALL CONFIGURATION
The Wireless Broadband Router provides extensive firewall protection by
restricting connection parameters to limit the risk of intrusion and
defending against a wide array of common hacker attacks.
Firewall Configuration contains the following sections:
◆ “MAC/IP/Port Filtering” on page 91
◆ “Virtual Server Settings (Port Forwarding)” on page 94
◆ “DMZ” on page 95
◆ “System Security” on page 96
◆ “Content Filtering” on page 97
MAC/IP/PORT FILTERING
MAC/IP/Port filtering restricts connection parameters to limit the risk of
intrusion and defends against a wide array of common hacker attacks.
MAC/IP/Port filtering allows the unit to permit, deny or proxy traffic
through its MAC addresses, IP addresses and ports.
The Wireless Broadband Router allows you define a sequential list of permit
or deny filtering rules (up to 32). This device tests ingress packets against
the filter rules one by one. A packet will be accepted as soon as it matches
a permit rule, or dropped as soon as it matches a deny rule. If no rules
match, the packet is either accepted or dropped depending on the default
policy setting.