4.10 Advanced Setup

4.10.1 Firewall

Click “Advanced” ”Firewall.”

The router’s firewall consists of two main functions.

1.Blocking DoS: This function helps to prevent so-called denial-of-service attacks.

2.Connection Filtering: Set of rules to accept or deny data traffic.

Blocking DoS:

SYN Flooding, Smurf, IP source routing, IP Spoofing: These are common attack

types. These options should be enabled.

Blocking ICMP (ping) from Internet: A successful ping command is typically how

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