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Firewall configuration Adding firewall policies

Maximum Bandwidth

Traffic Priority

You can also use traffic shaping to limit the amount of bandwidth available through the firewall for a policy. Limit bandwidth to keep less important services from using bandwidth needed for more important services.

Select High, Medium, or Low. Select Traffic Priority so that the FortiGate unit manages the relative priorities of different types of traffic. For example, a policy for connecting to a secure web server needed to support e-commerce traffic should be assigned a high traffic priority. Less important services should be assigned a low priority. The firewall provides bandwidth to low-priority connections only when bandwidth is not needed for high- priority connections.

Authentication

Select Authentication and select a user group to require users to enter a user name and password before the firewall accepts the connection. Select the user group to control the users that can authenticate with this policy. For information about adding and configuring user groups, see “Configuring user groups” on page 177. You must add user groups before you can select Authentication.

You can select Authentication for any service. Users can authenticate with the firewall using HTTP, Telnet, or FTP. For users to be able to authenticate you must add an HTTP, Telnet, or FTP policy that is configured for authentication. When users attempt to connect through the firewall using this policy they are prompted to enter a firewall username and password.

If you want users to authenticate to use other services (for example POP3 or IMAP) you can create a service group that includes the services for which you want to require authentication, as well as HTTP, Telnet, and FTP. Then users could authenticate with the policy using HTTP, Telnet, or FTP before using the other service.

In most cases you should make sure that users can use DNS through the firewall without authentication. If DNS is not available users cannot connect to a web, FTP, or Telnet server using a domain name.

Anti-Virus & Web filter

Enable antivirus protection and web filter content filtering for traffic controlled by this policy. You can select Anti-Virus & Web filter if Service is set to ANY, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, or FTP or to a service group that includes the HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, or FTP services.

Select a content profile to configure how antivirus protection and content filtering is applied to the policy. For information about selecting a content profile, see “Content profiles” on page 166.

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