Protecting Your Network 3-1
v1.0, February 2008
Chapter 3
Protecting Your Network
This chapter describes how to control access to your gateway and how to use the firewall features
of the gateway to protect your network.
Changing Passwords
For security reasons, the gateway has its own user names and passwords. The login user name is
admin, with the default password of password. The Numericable user name is MSO with the
default password of changeme. After a period of inactivity for a set length of time, the
administrator login automatically disconnects. You can change the password, and you can change
the amount of time for the administrator login timeout.
NETGEAR recommends that you change these passwords to more secure passwords. The ideal
passwords should contain no dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of both
upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Your passwords can be up to 30 characters.
To change a password:
1. Log in to the gateway by entering the default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1 with a default
user name, or using whatever password and LAN address you have chosen for the gateway.
2. Under the Maintenance heading, select Set Password. The Set Password screen displays:
Note: The user names and passwords are not the same as any user name or password your
may use to log in to your Internet connection.
Figure 3-1
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