Adding and Editing Special Applications

So that these special applications can work properly and are not blocked, the firewall needs to be told about them. In each instance there will be an outgoing trigger which tells the Gateway’s firewall that the application has started and to allow the incoming connections.

Each defined Special Application only supports a single computer user and any incoming ports opened by a Special Application trigger will be closed after 20 minutes of inactivity for TCP/IP connections or 10 for UDP/IP connections.

For each special application configured by the Gateway, a row is added to the table. Each row contains the following items:

■Delete button — Deletes the special application on that row. This will prevent the Gateway’s firewall from opening to that connection.

■Name — Each special application is named. This name is not used by the Gateway and is only to enable you to identify the connection. Clicking the name of a connection displays the Special Application Setup screen. See “Adding and Editing Special Applications” below.

■Trigger Port — This is the TCP/IP port number that the Gateway uses to recognize that the application has started.

Additionally there are two buttons outside the table:

■Help — displays the online help page for this screen.

■New — creates a new special application. See “Adding and Editing Special Applications” below.

Adding and Editing Special Applications

1Click on the New button to create a new special application or on the name of a special application to edit the settings for that application.

Figure 48 Special Application Settings Screen

2Select the applications from the Choose Application drop-down box. See Figure 48. If the application you want to define is not in the list select Custom and see “Creating Custom Special Applications” below.

3Click Add to add the special application to the list of protocols or Close to abort your selection and return to the Special Applications screen.

Depending on the settings you have made in PC Privileges the Special Application you have defined may not be allowed across the Firewall. See “PC Privileges” on page 47.

Creating Custom Special Applications

If your special application is not listed in the Choose Application drop-down box you can still configure it manually. Select Custom from the Choose Application drop-down box and the Special Application Setup Screen gains the extra fields needed to describe a custom special application. These are shown in Figure 49 below.

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