NETGEAR FVS318N manual DMZ Port for IPv4 Traffic

ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N

firewall can be dedicated as a hardware DMZ port to safely provide services to the Internet without compromising security on your LAN.

By default, the DMZ port and both inbound and outbound DMZ traffic are disabled. Enabling the DMZ port and allowing traffic to and from the DMZ increases the traffic through the WAN ports.

Using a DMZ port is also helpful with online games and videoconferencing applications that are incompatible with NAT. The wireless VPN firewall is programmed to recognize some of these applications and to work correctly with them, but there are other applications that might not function well. In some cases, local computers can run the application correctly if those computers are used on the DMZ port.

Note: A separate firewall security profile is provided for the DMZ port that is also physically independent of the standard firewall security component that is used for the LAN.

Note: For information about how to define the DMZ WAN rules and LAN DMZ rules, see Configure DMZ WAN Rules on page 145 and Configure LAN DMZ Rules on page 153, respectively.

Note: When you enable the DMZ port for IPv4 traffic, IPv6 traffic, or both, the DMZ LED next to LAN port 8 (see Front Panel on page 15) lights green to indicate that the DMZ port is enabled.

DMZ Port for IPv4 Traffic

The DMZ Setup (IPv4) screen lets you set up the DMZ port for IPv4 traffic. You can enable or disable the hardware DMZ port (LAN port 8; see Front Panel on page 15) and configure an IPv4 address and subnet mask for the DMZ port.

To enable and configure the DMZ port for IPv4 traffic:

1.Select Network Configuration > DMZ Setup. In the upper right of the screen, the IPv4 radio button is selected by default. The DMZ Setup screen displays the IPv4 settings:

LAN Configuration

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