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Protecting Your Network 4-1

Chapter 4

Protecting Your Network

This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the DG834 ADSL Firewall Router

to protect your network.

Protecting Access to Your DG834 ADSL Firewall Router

For security reasons, the router has its own user name and password. Also, after a period of

inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login will automatically disconnect. When

prompted, enter admin for the router User Name and password for the router Password. You can

use procedures below to change the router'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 your may use

to log in to your Internet connection.

NETGEAR recommends that you 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.

How to Change the Built-In Password

1. Log in to the router at its default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1 with its default User Name

of admin, default password of password, or using whatever Password and LAN address you

have chosen for the router.

Figure 4-1: Log in to the router

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