Chapter 11 Filter configuration
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BCM50a Integrated Router Configuration — Advanced
Figure 54
Filter rule process
You can apply up to four filter sets to a particular port to block multiple types of
packets. With each filter set having up to six rules, you can have a maximum of 24
rules active for a single port.
Start
Fetch First
Filter Set
Fetch First
Filter Rule
Active?
Execute
Filter Rule
Fetch Next
Filter Rule
Next filter
Rule
Available?
Fetch Next
Filter Set
Next Filter Set
Available?
Accept Packet
Drop Packet
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Packet into
filter
Filter Set
Forward
Drop
No
Check
Next
Rule
Summary of Contents for BCM50a
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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 ...