Firewall, 6 firewall – HP 6212 User Manual

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5.6 Firewall

The Hotwire 6212 ADSL router provides packet filtering and stateful packet inspection. It has
denial of service protection against attacks such as ICMP Flood, Ping of Death, IP spoofing, Port
Scans, Land Attack, Tear Drop Attack, IP Source Route, and WinNuke Attack.

To access the firewall functions, select Firewall from the advanced menu. The screen will
appear as below, showing a list of the currently configured filter entries. From the Firewall page,
you can view Filter Parameters, or click buttons at the bottom of the page to add a filter,
delete a filter, or View Action for filtered packets. For details of the parameters, refer to
Section 5.5.2, IP Filtering.

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