Using the Web-Based Advanced User Interface
Configuring the Firewall
Your Modem Router is equipped with a firewall that will protect your network from a wide array of common hacker attacks including:
•IP Spoofing
•Land Attack Ping of Death (PoD)
•Denial of Service (DoS)
•IP with zero length
•Smurf Attack
•TCP Null Scan
•SYN flood
•UDP flooding
•Tear Drop Attack
•ICMP defect
•RIP defect
•Fragment flooding
The firewall also masks common ports that are frequently used to attack networks. These ports appear to be “stealth” meaning that for all intents and purposes, they do not exist to a
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