4.6.3 Advanced Security

In the presence of the firewall, anonymous Internet traffic is blocked. Using the advanced security features, you can redirect this traffic to a dedicated computer on your local network (DMZ) or open the access from the Internet to the ADSL Router's management ports (web, telnet). To enable any of the advanced security features, click Advanced and configure the option under Firewall. Figure 14 illustrates the typical advanced security in Access Control configuration.

Figure 14 (Access Control)

The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Settings (at the side of the page). At the system commands page, click on Save All.

4.6.3.1 DMZ configuration

Setting a computer (on your local network) as a DMZ forwards any network traffic that is not redirected to another computer via the port-forwarding feature to the computer's IP address. This opens the access to the DMZ computer from the Internet.

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