Tips For Making Your Breakwater Basic Firewall Selection; Basic Firewall Background - Motorola 2200 Administrator's Handbook

Click on the radio button to select the protection level you want. Click Submit.
4.
Changing the BreakWater setting does not require a restart to take effect. This makes it easy to change
the setting "on the fly," as your needs change.

TIPS for making your BreakWater Basic Firewall Selection

Application
Typical Internet usage
(browsing, e-mail)
Multi-player online
gaming
Going on vacation
Finished online use for
the day
Chatting online or using
instant messaging

Basic Firewall Background

As a device on the Internet, a Motorola Netopia® Gateway requires an IP address in order to send or
receive traffic.
The IP traffic sent or received have an associated application port which is dependent on the nature of the
connection request. In the IP protocol standard the following session types are common applications:
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ICMP
•
SNMP
By receiving a response to a scan from a port or series of ports (which is the expected behavior according
to the IP standard), hackers can identify an existing device and gain a potential opening for access to an
internet-connected device.
Select this Level
SilentRunning
ClearSailing Set Pinholes; once defined, pinholes will be
active whenever ClearSailing is set.
Restore SilentRunning when finished.
LANdLocked Protects your connection while your away.
LANdLocked This protects you instead of disconnecting your
Gateway connection.
ClearSailing Set Pinholes; once defined, pinholes will be
active whenever ClearSailing is set.
Restore SilentRunning when finished.
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HTTP
•
telnet
Other Considerations
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FTP
•
DHCP
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