Motorola 2200 User Manual

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Administrator’s Handbook

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As a device on the Internet, a Motorola Netopia

®

Gateway requires an IP address in order to send or

receive traffic.

The IP traffic sent or received have an associated application por t which is dependent on the nature of
the connection request. In the IP protocol standard the following session types are common applica-
tions:

By receiving a response to a scan from a por t or series of por ts (which is the expected behavior accord-
ing to the IP standard), hackers can identify an existing device and gain a potential opening for access
to an internet-connected device.

To protect LAN users and their network from these types of attacks, the Motorola Netopia

®

Firewall

offers three levels of increasing protection.

The following tables indicate the state of por ts associated with session types, both on the WAN side
and the LAN side of the Gateway.

This table shows how inbound traffic is treated. Inbound means the traffic is coming from the WAN into
the WAN side of the Gateway.

❑ ICMP

❑ HTTP

❑ FTP

❑ SNMP

❑ telnet

❑ DHCP

Gateway: WAN Side

Firewall Setting >>

Off

Low/Medium

*

High

Port

Session Type

--------------Port State-----------------------

20

ftp data

Enabled

Disabled

Disabled

21

ftp control

Enabled

Disabled

Disabled

23

telnet external

Enabled

Disabled

Disabled

23

telnet Netopia ser ver

Enabled

Disabled

Disabled

80

http external

Enabled

Disabled

Disabled

80

http Netopia ser ver

Enabled

Disabled

Disabled

67

DHCP client

Enabled

Enabled

Disabled

68

DHCP ser ver

Not Applicable

Not Applicable

Not Applicable

161

snmp

Enabled

Disabled

Disabled

ping (ICMP)

Enabled

Disabled

Disabled

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