Configuring the firewall – ARRIS WTM652 User Guide User Manual
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Configuring the Firewall
The WTM652 provides a
to protect the computers on your home network
from unwanted access. The firewall provides the following features:
• Virtual Server Support: if you have a server on your home network that you
want to make available to the general Internet, you can configure a virtual
server. The firewall passes requests from the Internet to the designated
computer on your home network.
• Client filters: you can use client filters to block computers on your network
from accessing the Internet (or certain services) during specific days and
times.
• MAC Address filtering: allows access to the wireless network only by com-
puters specifically authorized to connect.
• Ping blocking: ignores ICMP (Ping) requests from the Internet.
Proceed to the next page to begin configuring the firewall.
Configuring Virtual Servers
Follow these steps to allow outside access to servers on your internal network.
1 Click the Firewall link in the navigation menu, then click Virtual Servers.
The Virtual Servers window appears.
2
Proceed as follows:
If you want to…
Then …
Add a well-known service
Choose the desired service from the Add
drop-down menu and then click the Add
button.
Add a custom service
Fill in a row as follows:
• Description: the service name.
• Inbound port: the beginning and ending
ports of the range required to support this
service. These are the ports that outside
clients use to access your server.