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Chapter 9 firewall, 1 general policy, Chapter 9 : firewall – PLANET SG-4800 User Manual

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Gigabit SSL VPN Security Router User’s Manual

Chapter 9 : Firewall

This chapter introduces firewall general policy, access rule, and content filter settings to ensure network

security.

9.1 General Policy

The firewall is enabled by default. If the firewall is set as disabled, features such as SPI, DoS, and outbound

packet responses will be turned off automatically. Meanwhile, the remote management feature will be

activated. The network access rules and content filter will be turned off.

Item

Description

Firewall

This feature allows users to turn on/off the firewall.

SPI (Stateful Packet

Inspection)

This enables the packet automatic authentication detection technology. The

Firewall operates mainly at the network layer. By executing the dynamic

authentication for each connection, it will also perform an alarming function for

application procedure. Meanwhile, the packet authentication firewall may decline

the connections which use non-standard communication protocol.

DoS (Denial of Service)

This averts DoS attacks such as SYN Flooding, Smurf, LAND, Ping of Death, IP

Spoofing and so on.

Block WAN request

If set as Enabled, then it will shut down outbound ICMP and abnormal packet

responses in connection. If users try to ping the WAN IP from the external, this

will not work because the default value is set as activated in order to decline the

outbound responses.

Remote Management

To enter the device web- based UI by connecting to the remote Internet, this

feature must be activated. In the field of remote browser IP, a valid external IP

address (WAN IP) for the device should be filled in and the modifiable default

control port should be adjusted (the default is set to 80, modifiable).

Multicast Pass

There are many audio and visual streaming media on the network. Broadcasting

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