The Default Firewalling Guide for the Cisco Linksys-EA4500

Open a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Enter the internal IP address of your router in the address bar of your browser. If you do not know your routers internal IP address please read our How To Find Your Routers IP Address guide.

In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the internal IP address of your router. By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.1.1.

You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now. By default both the username and password are admin. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.

Please visit our Default Router Passwords page if the username and password shown above do not work for you.

Click the Security link near the top of the page.

Put a dot into the IPv6 SPI Firewall Protection Disabled radio button.

Put a dot into the IPv4 SPI Firewall Protection Disabled radio button.

Remove the checkmark from the Filter Anonymous Internet Requests checkbox.

Remove the checkmark from the Filter Multicast checkbox.

Remove the checkmark from the Filter Internet NAT Redirection for IPv4 Internet Only checkbox.

Remove the checkmark from the Filter IDENT (Port 113) checkbox.

When you're finished, click Save Settings near the bottom of the screen to save your changes.

And that's it! You're done!

To test if your port has been properly opened, you can use our Port Checker tool.

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