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jayo  All-Star Member  2117 Posts 7/04 |  Posted - Sep 23 2007 : 6:04PMI thought I'd ask here. My service provider (Earthlink) seems unwilling to share any information beyond the "plug it in and push this button" kind of instruction. So I have no idea how far out my ass is hanging. I replaced my old DSL "modem" with the new one they sent. The old one was pretty simple, but the new one is also a router. I'm trying to double check the security settings. There are no help files that I can find, so I'm just guessing. Anyway, it appears I have the ability to block the following: Telnet - Telnet traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN FTP - FTP traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN TFTP - TFTP traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN Web - Web traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN SNMP - SNMP traffic is blocked from the WAN Ping - Ping traffic is blocked from the WAN / LAN Which ones do I want to block? I recognize some of these (e.g. Telnet and FTP) but some of these are new to me. (And before anyone asks: yes, I already changed the master router password to something hard-to-guess.) (edited for clarity) Edited by - jayo on Sep 23 2007 [Link] |
| willywilly Member Activated Member 662 Posts 2/05 | Posted - Sep 23 2007 : 7:06PM [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Sep 23 2007 : 7:28PM I can't find one anywhere. Zyxel's site has 800 versions but not that particular one. I looked at a couple that I thought were close, and they are very close. But they don't mention the Security tab, or how to properly secure the router. Of course, Earthlink wants you to buy their software... This sort of thing pisses me off no end. I understand why they want to make it easy for people who don't want to be bothered with optimizing our configuration, but it ought to be there for those of us who do. [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Sep 23 2007 : 10:03PM [Link] |
| justalurker Member 241 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Sep 23 2007 : 10:49PM TFTP is short for Trivial File Transfer Protocol. FTP lite if you wish. Disable this. SNMP is short for Simple Network Management Protcol, and unless you need to manage your network from the net disable this. PING is a protcol that uses little packets to establish that there is a connection present, disable this as well. And don't assume a router is going to protect you from the nasties, continue to use a good firewall on all your machines. Edited by - justalurker on 9/23/2007 10:54:15 PM [Link] |
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| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Sep 24 2007 : 5:53AM However, as justalurker suggests, don't rely on this firewall unless you know that it denies all other forms of inbound traffic by default. [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Sep 24 2007 : 9:22PM Yes, I'm running a software firewall, a spyware scanner, a virus scanner, et al. But I wanted to set the hardware firewall correctly too. [Link] |
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