ZyXEL Communications Prestige 662HW Series, User Manual

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Prestige 662HW Series User’s Guide
12-4 Firewall Configuration
Figure 12-2 WAN to LAN Traffic
12.4.3 Alerts
Alerts are reports on events, such as attacks, that you may want to know about right away. You can
choose to generate an alert when an attack is detected in the
Edit Rule screen ( select the Send Alert
Message to Administrator When Matched checkbox) or when a rule is matched in the Edit Rule
screen (see Figure 12-5)
.
When an event generates an alert, a message can be immediately sent to an
e-mail account that you specify in the Log Settings screen (see the chapter on logs).
12.5 Configuring Basic Firewall Settings
Click Firewall and then Default Policy to display the following screen. Activate the firewall by
selecting the Firewall Enabled check box as seen in the following screen.
Figure 12-3 Firewall: Default Policy
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 12-1 Firewall: Default Policy
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Firewall Enabled Select this check box to activate the firewall. The Prestige performs access control and
protects against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks when the firewall is activated.