Chapter 9 Firewall
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9.4.1 Add/Edit a Firewall Rule
Click
Add
or select a firewall rule and click
Edit
to open the following screen.
Figure 112
Firewall Rules: Add/Edit
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 54 Firewall Rules: Add/Edit
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Enable
Select this to turn on the firewall rule.
Logging
Select this to have the SBG log when it performs the firewall rule’s selected action on
the traffic traveling between the two zones.
Name
Enter a descriptive name of up to 16 alphanumeric characters, not including
spaces.
You must enter the filter name to add a firewall rule.
Description (Optional)
Enter a description to help you identify the purpose of the firewall rule.
Order
Select an existing number for where you want to put this firewall rule to move the
firewall rule to the number you selected after clicking
OK
. Ordering your rules is
important because the SBG applies the rules in the order that you specify.
Direction Use
the
From
and
To
define the direction of travel of packets to which to apply this
firewall rule. Select from which zone the packets come in and to which zone they
are destined. For example,
From LAN To WAN
means packets traveling from a
computer or subnet on the LAN zone to the WAN zone.
From Any
means traffic coming from the WAN, LAN, WLAN, DMZ, and EXTRA zones
(but not the
ROUTER
zone).
To Any (excl. Router)
means traffic going to the WAN, LAN, WLAN, DMZ, and EXTRA
zones (but not the
ROUTER
zone).
EXTRA
is a local zone to use as needed depending on your network topology.
To
ROUTER
applies to traffic that destined for the SBG. Use this to control which
computers can manage the SBG.
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