Protecting Your Network; Protecting Access To Your Fvm318 Firewall - NETGEAR FVM318 Reference Manual

Chapter 3

Protecting Your Network

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. Also, after a period of
inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login will automatically disconnect. When
prompted, enter admin for the firewall User Name and 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 your may use
to log in to your Internet connection.
NETGEAR recommends that you 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.
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