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Configuring the Firewall
47
Firewall
Configuration
To configure the firewall, you can define up to 10 "rules" using the
Firewall
Configuration
screen on the User Interface in the DW4020. If the control
information in an incoming packet matches
any
of the defined rules, the
DW4020
drops
the packet. So a packet will be passed from the Internet through
the DW4020 to the LAN, and thus to your computers, only if the packet doesn't
match any of the rules that you have defined. If you haven't defined any rules, all
packets will be passed through the firewall.
Configuring rules
Note that the rules that you configure apply to all traffic bound for
any
of your
LAN computers. This means that you can't block certain kinds of traffic (for
example, a "ping" from another computer trying to see if it can establish a
connection) from reaching some of your computers without blocking that kind
of traffic to all of your computers. To configure the firewall, follow the steps
below.
1. Access the
User Interface
and click on
Firewall Configuration
. The screen
in Figure 44 appears.
2. Check the
Enable Firewall
box.
The firewall starts (as shown in the figure) with no rules defined. Each rule
requires that you specify four fields. If the DW4020 firewall is enabled it
will check the fields specified in each IP packet that comes in from the
Internet bound for your LAN to see if they match any of the rules that you
have defined. If there is a match for all fields with any of the rules that you
have defined, the firewall won't deliver the packet to the LAN. The fields to
be specified for each rule definition are:
Figure 44: Firewall Configuration screen
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