Security settings category – Western Digital My Net N900 Central User Manual User Manual

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ADVANCED SETTINGS

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MY NET N900 CENTRAL

USER MANUAL

Security Settings Category

Firewall Screen

Purpose: Set up a firewall for this router to block specific incoming or outgoing traffic by

IP address and/or ports.

Action

From the drop-down list, select whether to allow or deny
incoming and outgoing traffic.

Allow incoming WAN ping
request

Select the checkbox to respond to ping requests from the
WAN.

Destination

Local network (LAN) or Internet (WAN).

Destination IP Range

Range of IP addresses where the traffic is destined.

IPv4 SPI Firewall

Toggle this button to On to enable the firewall.

Name

Name to identify the firewall rule.

Port Range

Network traffic port range that will be applied in the firewall
rule.

Protocol

Protocol that will be applied in the firewall rule. Available
options are TCP, UDP, ICMP, and TCP+UDP.

Source

Local network (LAN) or Internet (WAN).

Source IP Range

Range of IP addresses where the traffic initiates.

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