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Block WAN Requests
An “anonymous Internet request” is an attempt to “ping” your broadband
gateway’s WAN interface. Pinging is a way of checking if a system is running
at a particular IP address. It can also be used to hunt for certain kinds of
vulnerabilities in the system. Blocking WAN requests means not responding
to pings coming from the Internet. This is the default setting.
Reject IDENT requests
When this is enabled, the AirStation sends reject packets if it receives an
IDENT request. The default is enabled. Use this lter when the communication
speed goes down using a network application like e-mail, ftp or WEB. If IDENT
requests are forwarded to a LAN side client by address translation setting
(DMZ or TCP port:113), this basic rule is ignored.
Port Forwarding
Port Forwarding allows you to route external (Internet) calls for services such
as a web server (port 80), FTP server (Port 21), or other applications, through
your Router to your internal network. Since your internal computers are pro-
tected by a rewall, machines from the Internet cannot get to them because
they cannot be “seen”. If you need to congure the port forwarding function
for a specic application, you will need to contact the application vendor
to nd out which port settings you need. You can manually input this port
information into the Router.
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