3.5 Security
3.5.1 Firewall
Excepting NAT, this router also provides firewall function to block malicious intruders from accessing your computers on local network. These functions include inbound attack prevention, and block outbound traffics.
The Wireless N 300 Green Router AR685W has built in SPI Firewall which is a type of firewall that inspects incoming data packets to make sure they correspond to an outgoing request. Unsolicited and possibly harmful packets are rejected. It is suggested to keep SPI Firewall enabled.
When you enable “Discard Ping from WAN”, you router will not respond to a “ping” request or to its WAN interface.
Please select “Enable” or “Disable to enable or disable SPI Firewall and Discard Ping from WAN function of this router. Click “Apply” to save the settings you made.
After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button.
If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button.
After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:
You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting).
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