Intrusion Detection, Wireless Security

Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection Feature

Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) and Anti-DoS firewall protection (Default : Enabled) - The Intrusion Detection Feature of the ADSL Wireless Base Station limits access for incoming traffic at the WAN port. When the SPI feature is turned on, all incoming packets will be blocked except for those types marked in the Stateful Packet Inspection section.

RIP Defect (Default : Disabled) - If an RIP request packet is not acknowledged to by the router, it will stay in the input queue and not be released. Accumulated packets could cause the input queue to fill, causing severe problems for all protocols. enabling this feature prevents the packets from accumulating.

Discard Ping to WAN (Default : Disabled) - Prevent a ping on the ADSL Wireless Base Station’s WAN port from being routed to the network.

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Stateful Packet Inspection

This is called a "Stateful" packet inspection because it examines the contents of the packet to determine the state of the communications ; i.e., it ensures that the stated destination computer has previously requested the current communication. This is a way of ensuring that all communications are initiated by the recipient computer and are taking place only with sources that are known and trusted from previous interactions. In addition to being more rigorous in their inspection of packets, stateful inspection firewalls also close off ports until connection to the specific port is requested.

When particular types of traffic are checked, only the particular type of traffic initiated from the internal LAN will be allowed. For example, if the user only checks "FPT Service" in the Stateful Packet Inspection section, all incoming traffic will be blocked except for FTP connections initiated from the local LAN.

Stateful Packet Inspection allows you to select different application types that are using dynamic port numbers. If you wish to use the Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) to block packets, click on the "Yes" radio button in the "Enable SPI and Anti-DoS firewall protection" field and then check the inspection type that you need, such as Packet Fragmentation, TCP Connection, UDP Session, FTP Service, H.323 Service, or TFTP Service.

When hackers attempt to enter your network, the router can alert you by e-mail

If the mail server needs to authenticate your indentification before sending out any e-mail, please fill related information in POP3 server, username and password fields. Otherwise leave the three fields blank.

Connection Policy

Enter the appropriate values for TCP/UDP sessions as described in the following table.

Note

The firewall does not significantly affect system performance, so we advise enabling the prevention features to protect your network.

DMZ

If you have a client PC that cannot run an Internet application properly from behind the firewall, you can open the client up to unrestricted two-way Internet access. Enter the IP address of a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) host on this screen. Adding a client to the DMZ may expose your local network to a variety of security risks, so only use this option as a last resort.

4.4.2 Wireless Security

To make your wireless network safe, you should turn on the security function.

Configuring the Wireless ADSL Modem Router