Prestige 794M User’s Guide

6.3 General Settings

Enable the firewall in the General Settings screen. Click Configuration, Firewall and General Settings in the navigation panel to display the screen as shown.

Figure 45 Firewall: General Settings

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 29 Firewall: General Settings

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Security

Select Enable to activate firewall on the Prestige.

 

Select Disable to deactivate firewall on the Prestige.

 

 

Policy

The options are applicable when you select Enable in the Security field.

 

Select All blocked/User-definedto block all out-going (LAN to Internet) and

 

incoming packets (Internet to LAN) based on the firewall filters you configure. By

 

default, there is no custom filters.

 

Select High security level, Medium security level (default) or Low security

 

level to block packets based on the pre-defined firewall filters. Refer to Table 30

 

on page 67 for more information.

Block WAN

Select Enable to set the Prestige not to respond to any incoming Ping requests.

Request

Select Disable to deactivate this feature. THe Prestige will respond to all Ping

 

requests.

Apply

Click Apply to save the settings.

 

 

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