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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

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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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
7 years ago

C0RR0SIVE

 

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

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    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.

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      squirrelhunter
      Freshman
      7 years ago

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

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        C0RR0SIVE
        Associate Professor
        7 years ago

        You may want to keep those two settings enabled, though even with IPv6 enabled, chances are no one would try to remotely attack your network, which those features are meant to help prevent.