Celestion44
Established Member
Morning everyone. I am really hoping there is at least one fellow member with a similar router who can help me out here.
Although I have been in touch with technical support, I fear my overall lack of IT knowledge means that I am not understanding what I am being told.
Having recently purchased this router, i went through the set up "wizard" routine and all appeared well until i discovered that the Firewall did not appear to be switched on by default. So I thought it logical to switch it on. I was then faced with radio buttons for "allow" and "deny", which look like this;
Allow the packets not specified by any filtering rules to passthrough this device.
Deny the packets not specified by any filtering rules to passthrough this device.
(Note: The device will match the incoming packet with the enabled filtering rules one by one down the list and apply to the first matching rule. If the packet is not specified by any filtering rules within the list, then the Default Filtering Rule will take effect)
I have absolutley no idea how to set up filtering rules and am a loss to know how best to proceed.
All I want is a router which "allows" all outgoing requests (from my home LAN) and by default "denies" all incoming requests (from the Internet). This was what I had with my old router.
Also, and not under the same menu as "Firewall" above, I have noticed a radio button for "SPI Firewall" under "WAN settings/WAN service setup". Should this be ticked or is in not relevant to what I am trying to achieve?
I would be so very grateful to any fellow member who could spare just a few moments to put me on the right track here. For now, I continue to use my old but damaged router!
Although I have been in touch with technical support, I fear my overall lack of IT knowledge means that I am not understanding what I am being told.
Having recently purchased this router, i went through the set up "wizard" routine and all appeared well until i discovered that the Firewall did not appear to be switched on by default. So I thought it logical to switch it on. I was then faced with radio buttons for "allow" and "deny", which look like this;
Allow the packets not specified by any filtering rules to passthrough this device.
Deny the packets not specified by any filtering rules to passthrough this device.
(Note: The device will match the incoming packet with the enabled filtering rules one by one down the list and apply to the first matching rule. If the packet is not specified by any filtering rules within the list, then the Default Filtering Rule will take effect)
I have absolutley no idea how to set up filtering rules and am a loss to know how best to proceed.
All I want is a router which "allows" all outgoing requests (from my home LAN) and by default "denies" all incoming requests (from the Internet). This was what I had with my old router.
Also, and not under the same menu as "Firewall" above, I have noticed a radio button for "SPI Firewall" under "WAN settings/WAN service setup". Should this be ticked or is in not relevant to what I am trying to achieve?
I would be so very grateful to any fellow member who could spare just a few moments to put me on the right track here. For now, I continue to use my old but damaged router!