Chapter 17 Firewall
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17.4.1 Add/Edit an ACL Rule
Click
Add
new ACL rule
or the
Edit
icon next to an existing ACL rule in the
Access Control
screen. The
following screen displays.
Figure 125
Access Control: Add/Edit
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Action
This field displays whether the rule silently discards packets (
DROP
), discards packets and sends a
TCP reset packet or an ICMP destination-unreachable message to the sender (
REJECT
) or allows
the passage of packets (
ACCEPT
).
Modify
Click the
Edit
icon to edit the rule.
Click the
Delete
icon to delete an existing rule. Note that subsequent rules move up by one
when you take this action.
Click the
Move To
icon to change the order of the rule. Enter the number in the # field.
Table 76 Security > Firewall > Access Control (continued)
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Table 77 Access Control: Add/Edit
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Filter Name
Enter a descriptive name of up to 16 alphanumeric characters, not including spaces,
underscores, and dashes.
You must enter the filter name to add an ACL rule. This field is read-only if you are editing the
ACL rule.
Order
Select the order of the ACL rule.
Select Source
Device
Select the source device to which the ACL rule applies. If you select
Specific IP Address
, enter
the source IP address in the field below.
Source IP
Address
Enter the source IP address.
Select
Destination
Device
Select the destination device to which the ACL rule applies. If you select
Specific IP Address
,
enter the destiniation IP address in the field below.