Chapter 5 protecting your network, Protecting access to your fr328s firewall, How to change the built-in password – NETGEAR Cable/DSL ProSafe Firewall FR328S User Manual
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Protecting Your Network
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Chapter 5
Protecting Your Network
This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the FR328S ProSafe Firewall with
Dial Back-Up to protect your network.
Protecting Access to Your FR328S Firewall
For security reasons, the firewall has its own user name and password. Also, after a period of
inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login will automatically disconnect. When
prompted, enter
admin for the firewall User Name and password for the firewall password.
You can use procedures below to change the firewall password and the amount of time for the
administrator’s login timeout.
Note: The user name and password are not the same as any user name or password your may use
to log in to your Internet connection.
Change this password to a more secure password. The ideal password should contain no
dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of both upper and lower case letters,
numbers, and symbols. Your password can be up to 30 characters.
How to Change the Built-In Password
1.
Log in to the firewall at its default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1 with its default User
Name of
admin
, default password of
password
, or using whatever password and LAN
address you have chosen for the firewall.