Protecting Your Network; Protecting Access To Your Fvm318 Firewall; Procedure 4-1: Changing The Administrator Password - NETGEAR FVM318 Reference Manual

This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the FVM318 Cable/DSL ProSafe
Wireless VPN Security Firewall to protect your network.

Protecting Access to Your FVM318 firewall

For security reasons, the firewall has its own user name and password to protect access to its
configuration menus. Also, after a period of inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator
login will automatically disconnect. When prompted, enter
password for the firewall password. You can use procedures below to change the firewall's
password and the amount of time for the administrator's login timeout.
Note: The user name and password are not the same as any user name or password you may use to
log in to your Internet connection.
Change this password to a more secure password. The ideal password should contain no dictionary
words from any language, and should be a mixture of both upper and lower case letters, numbers,
and symbols. Your password can be up to 30 characters.

Procedure 4-1: Changing the Administrator Password

Log in to the firewall at its default LAN address of
1.
name of
admin
address you have chosen for the firewall.

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and default password of
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admin
http://192.168.0.1
, or using whatever password and LAN
password
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for the firewall user name and
with its default user
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