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• Respond to Ping on Internet Port. If you want the router to respond to a ping from the

Internet, select this check box. Use this setting only as a diagnostic tool because it allows

your router to be discovered. Do not select this check box unless you have a specific

reason.

• Disable IGMP Proxying. IGMP proxying allows a computer on the local area network

(LAN) to receive the multicast traffic it is interested in from the Internet. If you do not need

this feature, you can select this check box to disable it.

• MTU Size (in bytes). The normal MTU (Maximum Transmit Unit) value for most Ethernet

networks is 1500 bytes, or 1492 bytes for PPPoE connections. For some ISPs, you might

need to reduce the MTU. Reducing the MTU is rarely required, and should not be done

unless you are sure that it is necessary for your ISP connection. See

Change the MTU

Size on page 36.

• NAT Filtering. Network Address Translation (NAT) determines how the router processes

inbound traffic. Secured NAT provides a secured firewall to protect the computers on the

LAN from attacks from the Internet, but might prevent some Internet games,

point-to-point applications, or multimedia applications from functioning. Open NAT

provides a much less secured firewall, but it allows almost all Internet applications to

function.

Default DMZ Server

The default DMZ server feature is helpful when you are using some online games and

videoconferencing applications that are incompatible with Network Address Translation

(NAT). The router is programmed to recognize some of these applications and to work

correctly with them, but other applications might not function well. In some cases, one local

computer can run the application correctly if that computer’s IP address is entered as the

default DMZ server.

WARNING!

DMZ servers pose a security risk. A computer designated as the

default DMZ server loses much of the protection of the firewall

and is exposed to exploits from the Internet. If compromised, the

DMZ server computer can be used to attack other computers on

your network.

The router usually detects and discards incoming traffic from the Internet that is not a

response to one of your local computers or a service that you have configured in the Port

Forwarding/Port Triggering screen. Instead of discarding this traffic, you can have the router

forward the traffic to one computer on your network. This computer is called the default DMZ

server.

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