Netgear FVM318 – Cable and DSL ProSafe Wireless VPN Security Firewall Manual De Referencia

Protecting Your Network

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This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the FVM318 Cable/DSL ProSafe 
Wireless VPN Security Firewall to protect your network.

For security reasons, the firewall has its own user name and password to protect access to its 
configuration menus. Also, after a period of inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator 
login will automatically disconnect. When prompted, enter 

 for the firewall user name and 

 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 you may use to 
log in to your Internet connection.

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.

1.

Log in to the firewall at its default LAN address of 

 with its default user 

name of 

 and default password of 

, or using whatever password and LAN 

address you have chosen for the firewall.