User manual

EE400-R GigaFast Ethernet.
P 32
Chapter 4 Advanced Firewall Function
Besides the native protection features from NAT, the EE400-R provides advanced functions which
are popular in most firewall devices such as deny PING, block service port, URL keyword blocking,
virtual server, DMZ and intrusion event log. (recorded in the EE400-R internal buffer, please refer to
3.1.2
)
4.1 Access Control
“Access control” allow you to control the WAN-to-LAN or LAN-to-WAN access capability.
Click the Access Control link in the left frame. There you will see the 3 options shown below.
1. Respond to Ping from WAN:
Allow or Deny responding if there is any PING packet sent to the WAN of the EE400-R.
This is very useful to avoid Internet intruders/hackers from probing the computer. Most likely,
the hacker will not start to attack.
2. Web Management from WAN:
This function allows the administrator to configure the EE400-R from the outside Internet with
the browser directl
y
. In order to reserve HTTP service
(
port 80
)
, which is used for virtual
server function, the remote web administration function utilizes another port 64511 instead.
(e.g. http://211.79.244.45:64511 ).