RCA 608WL, 620, 605 manual Buttons Click

Chapter 5

Expert Configuration

Buttons Click:

Customize... to create a new firewall level starting from the selected firewall level. For more information, see “ Creating a firewall rule” on page 173.

Set Active to activate the selected firewall rule.

!To save the new configuration, click Save All.

Loose UDP tracking If this check box is:

Selected:

The source port of the original UDP connection is opened for all hosts which want to connect to this port.

This can be configured for example for gaming: to allow the client to receive information from other players of the same online game, loose udp tracking should be configured to allow incoming packets on the port that was used to start the communication with the server.

Cleared:

Only returning UDP streams belonging to the same connection are allowed.

Game & Application Select this check box to allow the firewall to open ports for "games and application Sharing Allowed sharing" in order to use applications like Peer-to-Peer file sharing (PtoP), Internet

Games, Web serving, FTP serving, WebCams, IRC DDC, and Instant Messaging such as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MS Messenger.

Proxying allowed Select this check box to allow the firewall to act as a proxy server.

A proxy server acts both as a server and a client for the purpose of making requests on behalf of other clients. Requests are serviced internally or by passing them on to other servers. A proxy interprets, and, if necessary, rewrites a request message before forwarding it. For example HTTP Intercept.

Read only The default levels are set read only to indicate you cannot change or add rules. Click customize to copy the level and add or change rules. The read only check box is only present when a default level is active.

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