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advanced-firewall [2022/01/21 02:45] – clarity, formatting hogwildadvanced-firewall [2022/01/21 02:49] – old revision restored (2022/01/21 02:45) hogwild
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 The Firewall page allows you to configure options to protect/facilitate certain network communications.\\  \\ The Firewall page allows you to configure options to protect/facilitate certain network communications.\\  \\
  
-{{:pasted:20220118-182859.png}}\\  \\ +{{:pasted:20220118-182859.png}}\\  \\ **WAN interfaces respond to ping and traceroute** - When enabled, this allows your device will reply to certain ICMP/UDP packets so that //ping //and //traceroute //from Internet hosts will work.
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-**WAN interfaces respond to ping and traceroute** - When enabled, this allows your device will reply to certain ICMP/UDP packets so that //ping //and //traceroute //from Internet hosts will work.+
  
 **Limit communication to **- Specifies the maximum number of requests per second to which the Firewall will reply. Setting a limit number is recommended to prevent DDoS attacks.\\ **Limit communication to **- Specifies the maximum number of requests per second to which the Firewall will reply. Setting a limit number is recommended to prevent DDoS attacks.\\
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 **Enable TCP SYN cookies** - Enabling this protects the router from SYN Flood attacks via a well-known technique called "SYN cookies". This function encodes information from the SYN packet into the response (SYN/ACK). Despite being a standard technique, enabling this will create some secondary limitations that may not be handled well by some old TCP/IP stacks. **Enable TCP SYN cookies** - Enabling this protects the router from SYN Flood attacks via a well-known technique called "SYN cookies". This function encodes information from the SYN packet into the response (SYN/ACK). Despite being a standard technique, enabling this will create some secondary limitations that may not be handled well by some old TCP/IP stacks.
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 **Enable DCSP Fix** - This enables a workaround for a well-known issue related to DSCP (packet marking) when connected to the Comcast ISP. **Enable DCSP Fix** - This enables a workaround for a well-known issue related to DSCP (packet marking) when connected to the Comcast ISP.
  
-**IPv6 IPSec Passthrough** - FIXME\\+**IPv6 IPSec Passthrough** - FIXME\\ \\ 
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advanced-firewall.txt · Last modified: 2023/05/28 05:39 by hogwild