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squirrelhunter's avatar
squirrelhunter
Freshman
7 years ago

HT2000W SPI and Anti-DoS firewall protection

Does having the SPI and Anti-DoS firewall protection turned on in the Intrusion Detection section of the Firewall setting cause more data usage or how about the Discard Ping To WAN Interface setting?...
  • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
    C0RR0SIVE
    7 years ago

    Neither will have an effect on your data usage, and are useless features to enable/disable if you're not an SME customer.

    Best practice says to keep them enabled though.

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C0RR0SIVE
Associate Professor
7 years ago

Neither will have an effect on your data usage, and are useless features to enable/disable if you're not an SME customer.

Best practice says to keep them enabled though.

  • GabeU's avatar
    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV
    7 years ago

    C0RR0SIVE

     

    Are they useless because of the shared IPs with the residential plans?  

    • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
      C0RR0SIVE
      Associate Professor
      7 years ago

      More like because the IPv4 on residential systems isn't a publically facing IP address... However, they may be beneficial to have enabled if you're using IPv6 since that is public facing.

      • squirrelhunter's avatar
        squirrelhunter
        Freshman
        7 years ago

        My IPv6 is turned on though,is that not right? I haven't messed with that setting?