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Lab - Configure Firewall Settings

The document describes configuring firewall settings on a wireless router, including MAC address filtering, enabling a DMZ, and port forwarding. It provides instructions to log into the router, configure MAC filtering to control wireless devices, enable the DMZ to forward traffic to a local device, and set up single port forwarding for specific network services and applications. The reflection question asks about other firewall configurations available on the router model.

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Lab - Configure Firewall Settings

The document describes configuring firewall settings on a wireless router, including MAC address filtering, enabling a DMZ, and port forwarding. It provides instructions to log into the router, configure MAC filtering to control wireless devices, enable the DMZ to forward traffic to a local device, and set up single port forwarding for specific network services and applications. The reflection question asks about other firewall configurations available on the router model.

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Lab – Configure Firewall Settings

Objectives
In this lab, you will configure firewall settings to use MAC address filtering, a DMZ, and single port forwarding
on a wireless router to manage the connections and traffic through the wireless router.

Background / Scenario
You recently purchased a wireless router for your home and want to configure MAC filtering to limit the
number of devices connecting to the network wireless. Furthermore, you would like to allow your game
console to be connected from the Internet by enabling DMZ. As an alternative to enabling DMZ, you will
manually forward the specific ports for the desired games.

Required Resources
 A Windows computer with wired and wireless network cards installed
 Wireless router
 Ethernet patch cable

Instructions
Part 1: Log into the Wireless Router

Step 1: Connect the computer to the router.


a. Ask the instructor for the following information that is used during the lab and record the information
below.
Questions:
Router Address Information:
IP address:
Type your answers here.
Subnet mask:
Type your answers here.
Router name:
Type your answers here.
DHCP Server Setting Information:
Start IP address:
Type your answers here.
Maximum number of users:
Type your answers here.

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Default Router Access:


Router Username / Password:
Type your answers here.
Assigned SSID:
Your Assigned SSID:
Type your answers here.
Note: Only use configurations assigned by the instructor.
b. Plug in the power for the wireless router. Boot the computer and log in as an administrator.
c. Connect the computer to one of the Ethernet ports on the wireless router with an Ethernet patch cable.
Note: If this is the first time connecting to the lab router, follow these instructions to set a network location.
This will be explained later in the course.
d. If prompted by the Set Network Location window, select Public network. Click Close to accept the
network location Public.
e. Open a command prompt and type ipconfig to determine the IP address of the default gateway, which
should be the IP address of your wireless router. If it is necessary to renew the IP address, enter ipconfig
/renew at the prompt.
What is the default gateway for the computer?
Type your answers here.

Step 2: Log in to the router.


a. Open Microsoft Edge or other web browsers. Enter the IP address of your default gateway in the
Address field, and then press Enter.
b. In the Windows Security window, enter administrative user credentials provided by your instructor.

Part 2: Configure Firewall Settings


In this part, you will configure the firewall settings on the router. You will configure MAC filtering to control the
devices that could connect to the local network wirelessly. You will also configure the DMZ and single port
forwarding to allow forwarding of external traffic to a device in the local private network.
Note: The steps outlined in this part may not be the same for your router. Please refer to the manufacturer’s
instruction manual for your specific router.

Step 1: Configure MAC filtering


MAC filtering requires the router to check if the devices are allowed to connect the network. This could
prevent malicious network activities from unauthorized devices. Although it is difficult to spoof the MAC
address because it is hardware-encoded, determined hackers can still circumvent this security feature.
a. The MAC filtering setting, if available, is generally associated with the advanced, wireless, security or
firewall settings.
b. Enable MAC filtering.
c. Deny or allow access for the listed MAC addresses.
d. Add the MAC addresses to the MAC filter list.
e. Save the settings.

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Step 2: Configure DMZ


A wireless router can block attempts by devices from an external network, such as the internet, to connect to
the devices on a private local network. If there is a need for a device to connect to devices on the local
network, the DMZ can be enabled on the router. When the DMZ is enabled, all traffic originating from an
external source is forwarded to a single device on the local network.
Note: When a DMZ is used to forward all the inbound traffic to a device on the local network, the local device
is no longer protected by the router’s firewall.
a. The DMZ setting, if available, is generally associated with the advanced, security, or firewall settings.
b. Enable DMZ.
c. Specify a range of IP address or any source IP address.
d. Provide the IP address or MAC address of the host in the DMZ.
e. Save the settings.

Step 3: Single Port Forwarding


Port forwarding allows remote computers to connect to specific services on a specific device within a private
local network based on the source IP address, destination TCP port number, and other characteristics of the
traffic.
Depending on the router model, more than one port forwarding rule could be configured. With more than one
rule configured, the order of the rule on the screen determines the order in which the packets are checked
against the rules.
a. The single port forwarding setting, if available, is generally associated with the application/game or
firewall settings.
b. Enable single port forwarding and input the desired applications, internal and external ports, protocol and
IP address.
c. Save the settings.

Reflection Question
For your router model, what are other available firewall configurations? List them and describe their functions
below.
Type your answers here.
End of Document

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