Protecting Your Network; Protecting Access To Your Fvs318 Vpn Firewall; How To Change The Built-In Password - NETGEAR FVS318 - ProSafe VPN Firewall Router Reference Manual

This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the FVS318 Broadband ProSafe
VPN Firewall to protect your network.

Protecting Access to Your FVS318 VPN 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
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.

How to Change the Built-In Password

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

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for the firewall User Name and
password
M-10146-01
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for the firewall Password. You
password
http://192.168.0.1
, or using whatever User Name, Password and
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