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More info?)
You cannot disable the firewall. The following paragraph
is taken from the management tool.
The base station's integrated firewall discards
suspicious data packets transmitted to your network from
the wide area network (WAN). Although you cannot disable
the firewall, you can disable the firewall rule that
blocks such Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
commands as ping.
>-----Original Message-----
>You can disable the firewall, but that is not a very
good idea.
>
>It is also a good idea to block incoming ping commands
also known as
>ICMP commands.
>
>anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't impossible to
disable
>> the firewall? What you can do is have your MN-700 not
>> respond to ICMP commands, which is a good idea.
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>It means someone tried to get into your network but
the
>>
>> MN-700 blocked
>>
>>>the attempt. One more reason to keep the firewall in
>>
>> the MN-700 enabled.
>>
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