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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
10.3 The Firewall Rule Screen
Note: The ordering of your rules is very important as rules are applied in turn.
Table 51
Security > Firewall > General
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Active Firewall
Select this check box to activate the firewall. The Device performs access control and
protects against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks when the firewall is activated.
Bypass Triangle
Route
If an alternate gateway on the LAN has an IP address in the same subnet as the Device’s
LAN IP address, return traffic may not go through the Device. This is called an
asymmetrical or “triangle” route. This causes the Device to reset the connection, as the
connection has not been acknowledged.
Select this check box to have the Device permit the use of asymmetrical route topology
on the network (not reset the connection).
Note: Allowing asymmetrical routes may let traffic from the WAN go directly to the LAN
without passing through the Device. A better solution is to use IP alias to put the
Device and the backup gateway on separate subnets. See
Section 10.4.4.1 on
page 151
for an example.
Packet Direction
This is the direction of travel of packets (
LAN to Router
,
LAN to WAN
,
WAN to
Router
,
WAN to LAN)
.
Firewall rules are grouped based on the direction of travel of packets to which they
apply. For example,
LAN to Router
means packets traveling from a computer/subnet
on the LAN to the Device itself.
Default Action
Use the drop-down list boxes to select the default action that the firewall is to take on
packets that are traveling in the selected direction and do not match any of the firewall
rules.
Select
Drop
to silently discard the packets without sending a TCP reset packet or an
ICMP destination-unreachable message to the sender.
Select
Reject
to deny the packets and send a TCP reset packet (for a TCP packet) or an
ICMP destination-unreachable message (for a UDP packet) to the sender.
Select
Permit
to allow the passage of the packets.
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Page 140: ...Chapter 9 Network Address Translation NAT AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 140 ...
Page 158: ...Chapter 11 Filters AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 158 ...
Page 162: ...Chapter 12 Static Route AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 162 ...
Page 166: ...Chapter 13 Port Binding AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 166 ...
Page 176: ...Chapter 15 Quality of Service QoS AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 176 ...
Page 198: ...Chapter 18 Universal Plug and Play UPnP AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 198 ...
Page 202: ...Chapter 19 CWMP AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 202 ...
Page 206: ...Chapter 20 System Settings AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 206 ...
Page 216: ...Chapter 21 Logs AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 216 ...
Page 266: ...Appendix C Pop up Windows JavaScripts and Java Permissions AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 266 ...
Page 280: ...Appendix D Wireless LANs AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 280 ...
Page 290: ...Appendix E IPv6 AMG1302 T10A User s Guide 290 ...
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