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v1.0, November 2009
Chapter 3
Protecting Your Network
This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the modem router to protect your
network. This chapter includes:
• “Protecting Access to Your Wireless Modem Router”
• “Viewing Logs of Web Access or Attempted Web Access” on page 3-3
• “Blocking Sites” on page 3-4
• “The modem router provides a variety of options for blocking Internet-based content and
communications services. With its content filtering feature, the Wireless-N Modem Router
prevents objectionable content from reaching your PCs. The modem router allows you to
control access to Internet content by screening for keywords within Web addresses. Key
content filtering options include:” on page 3-4”
• “Firewall Rules” on page 3-6”
• “Services” on page 3-13”
• “Setting Times and Scheduling Firewall Services” on page 3-15”
• “Configuring E-mail Alerts and Web Access Log Notifications” on page 3-17
Protecting Access to Your Wireless Modem Router
For security reasons, the modem router has its own user name and password. Also, after a period
of inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login automatically disconnects. When
prompted, enter admingfor the modem router user name and password for the modem router
password. You can use the following procedures to change the modem router’s password and the
period for the administrator’s login time-out.
Note: The user name and password are not the same as any other user name or password
your might use to log in to your Internet connection.