Firewall And Access Control - Billion BiPAC 6200WZL R2 User Manual

Firewall and Access Control

Your router includes a full SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) firewall for controlling Internet access
from your LAN, as well as helping to prevent attacks from hackers. In addition to this, when using
NAT (Network Address Translation) the router acts as a "natural" Internet firewall, since all PCs on
your LAN use private IP addresses that cannot be directly accessed from the Internet. See the WAN
configuration section for more details on NAT.
Firewall: Prevents access from outside your network.
NAT natural firewall: This masks LAN users' IP addresses, which are invisible to outside users on
the Internet, making it much more difficult for a hacker to target a machine on your network. This
natural firewall is on when the NAT function is enabled.
Firewall Security and Policy (General Settings): Inbound direction of Packet Filter rules prevent
unauthorized computers or applications accessing your local network from the Internet.
Intrusion Detection: Enable Intrusion Detection to detect, prevent, and log malicious attacks.
MAC Filter rules: Prevents unauthorized computers accessing the Internet.
When using Virtual Servers (port mapping) your PCs are exposed to the
ports specified opened in your firewall packet filter settings.
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