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BCM50a Integrated Router Configuration — Advanced
Chapter 10
Introducing the firewall
This chapter shows you how to get started with the firewall.
Using SMT menus
From the main menu enter 21 to go to
Menu 21 - Filter Set and Firewall
Configuration
to display the screen shown in
Figure 51
.
Figure 51
Menu 21– Filter and Firewall Setup
Activating the firewall
Enter option 2 in this menu to bring up the screen shown in
Figure 52
. Press
[SPACE BAR] and then [ENTER] to select
Yes
in the
Active
field to activate the
firewall. The firewall must be active to protect against Denial of Service (DoS)
attacks. Use the WebGUI to configure firewall rules.
Menu 21 - Filter and Firewall Setup
1. Filter Setup
2. Firewall Setup
Enter Menu Selection Number:
Summary of Contents for BCM50a
Page 18: ...18 Figures N0115791 ...
Page 22: ...22 Tables N0115791 ...
Page 28: ...28 Preface N0115791 ...
Page 44: ...44 Chapter 2 Introducing the SMT N0115791 SMT menus at a glance Figure 6 SMT overview ...
Page 52: ...52 Chapter 2 SMT menu 1 general setup N0115791 ...
Page 64: ...64 Chapter 4 LAN setup N0115791 ...
Page 68: ...68 Chapter 5 Internet access N0115791 ...
Page 82: ...82 Chapter 6 Remote Node setup N0115791 ...
Page 114: ...114 Chapter 9 Network Address Translation NAT N0115791 ...
Page 140: ...140 Chapter 12 SNMP Configuration N0115791 ...
Page 144: ...144 Chapter 13 System security N0115791 ...
Page 160: ...160 Chapter 14 System information and diagnosis N0115791 ...
Page 174: ...174 Chapter 15 Firmware and configuration file maintenance N0115791 ...
Page 188: ...188 Chapter 17 Remote Management N0115791 ...
Page 208: ...208 Appendix B Triangle Route N0115791 ...
Page 228: ...228 Appendix D PPPoE N0115791 ...
Page 230: ...230 Appendix E Hardware specifications N0115791 ...
Page 240: ...240 Appendix F IP subnetting N0115791 ...
Page 278: ...278 Appendix G Command Interpreter N0115791 ...
Page 308: ...308 Appendix J Log descriptions N0115791 ...
Page 310: ...310 Appendix K Brute force password guessing protection N0115791 ...