User manual NETGEAR DG834PN REFERENCE MANUAL

[. . . ] Reference Manual for the DG834PN RangeMaxTM ADSL Modem Wireless Router NETGEAR, Inc. 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Phone 1-888-NETGEAR 202-10127-01 November 2005 © 2005 by NETGEAR, Inc. November 2005. Trademarks NETGEAR is a trademark of Netgear, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] The list already displays many common services, but you are not limited to these choices. Use the Add Custom Service feature to add any additional services or applications that do not already appear. Action Choose how you want this type of traffic to be handled. You can block or allow always, or you can choose to block or allow according to the schedule you have defined in the Schedule menu. LAN Users These settings determine which packets are covered by the rule, based on their source LAN IP address. Select the desired option: -- Any -- all IP addresses are covered by this rule. -- Address range -- if this option is selected, you must enter the Start and Finish fields. Protecting Your Network v1. 0, November 2005 · · 4-10 Reference Manual for the DG834PN RangeMaxTM ADSL Modem Wireless Router -- Single address -- enter the required address in the Start field. · WAN Users These settings determine which packets are covered by the rule, based on their destination WAN IP address. Select the desired option: -- Any -- all IP addresses are covered by this rule. -- Address range --if this option is selected, you must enter the Start and Finish fields. -- Single address -- enter the required address in the Start field. · Log You can select whether the traffic will be logged. The choices are: -- Never -- no log entries will be made for this service. -- Always -- any traffic for this service type will be logged. -- Match -- traffic of this type that matches the parameters and action will be logged. -- Not match -- traffic of this type that does not match the parameters and action will be logged. Order of Precedence for Rules As you define new rules, they are added to the tables in the Rules menu, as shown in Figure 4-8: Figure 4-8 For any traffic attempting to pass through the firewall, the packet information is subjected to the rules in the order shown in the Rules Table, beginning at the top and proceeding to the default rules at the bottom. In some cases, the order of precedence of two or more rules may be important in determining the disposition of a packet. The Move button allows you to relocate a defined rule to a new position in the table. Protecting Your Network v1. 0, November 2005 4-11 Reference Manual for the DG834PN RangeMaxTM ADSL Modem Wireless Router Services Services are functions performed by server computers at the request of client computers. For example, Web servers serve Web pages, time servers serve time and date information, and game hosts serve data about other players' moves. When a computer on the Internet sends a request for service to a server computer, the requested service is identified by a service or port number. This number appears as the destination port number in the transmitted IP packets. For example, a packet that is sent with destination port number 80 is an HTTP (Web server) request. [. . . ] -- Verify that the IP address for your router and your workstation are correct and that the addresses are on the same subnet. Testing the Path from Your Computer to a Remote Device After verifying that the LAN path works correctly, test the path from your PC to a remote device. From the Windows run menu, type: PING -n 10 <IP address> where <IP address> is the IP address of a remote device such as your ISP's DNS server. If the path is functioning correctly, replies as in the previous section are displayed. If you do not receive replies: · Check that your PC has the IP address of your router listed as the default ADSL modem wireless router. [. . . ]