Reference Manual for the ProSafe VPN Firewall 25 with 4 Gigabit LAN and Dual WAN Ports

Inbound Traffic

Incoming traffic from the Internet is normally discarded by the firewall unless the traffic is a response to one of your local computers or a service that you have configured in the Inbound Rules menu. Instead of discarding this traffic, you can have it forwarded to one or more LAN hosts on your network.

The addressing of the firewall’s dual WAN port depends on the configuration being implemented:

IP addressing requirements for exposed hosts in dual WAN port systems

 

 

Single WAN Port

Dual WAN Port Cases

 

 

 

 

 

 

case)

Rollover

Load Balancing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FQDN required

Allowed

 

 

 

 

(FQDN optional)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

required

FQDN required

 

 

 

 

 

that the public and enabled.

IP address of WAN port:

FQDN is required for dynamic IP address and is optional for fixed IP address

WAN

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Network

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