5.Click on the QoS tab if you want to apply DSCP or 802.1p Quality of Service coloring/marking to traffic governed by this rule. See the SonicOS Enhanced Administrator’s Guide for more information on managing QoS marking in access rules.

6.Click OK to add the rule.

Creating a NAT Policy

The Network Address Translation (NAT) engine in SonicOS Enhanced allows users to define granular NAT policies for their incoming and outgoing traffic. By default, the SonicWALL security appliance has a preconfigured NAT policy to allow all systems connected to the LAN interface to perform Many-to- One NAT using the IP address of the WAN interface, and a policy to not perform NAT when traffic crosses between the other interfaces.

You can create multiple NAT policies on a SonicWALL running SonicOS Enhanced for the same object – for instance, you can specify that an internal server use one IP address when accessing Telnet servers, and to use a totally different IP address for all other protocols. Because the NAT engine in SonicOS Enhanced supports inbound port forwarding, it is possible to hide multiple internal servers off the WAN IP address of the SonicWALL security appliance. The more granular the NAT Policy, the more precedence it takes.

Before configuring NAT Policies, you must create all Address Objects associated with the policy. For instance, if you are creating a One-to-One NAT policy, first create Address Objects for your public and private IP addresses.

Address Objects are one of four object classes (Address, User, Service and Schedule) in SonicOS Enhanced. These Address Objects allow for entities to be defined one time, and to be re- used in multiple referential instances throughout the SonicOS interface. For example, take an internal Web server with an IP address of 67.115.118.80. Rather than repeatedly typing in the IP address when constructing Access Rules or NAT Policies, Address Objects allow you to create a single entity called “My Web Server” as a Host Address Object with an IP address of 67.115.118.80. This Address Object, “My Web Server”, can then be easily and efficiently selected from a drop-down menu in any configuration screen that employs Address Objects as a defining criterion.

Since there are multiple types of network address expressions, there are currently the following Address Objects types:

Host – Host Address Objects define a single host by its IP address.

Range – Range Address Objects define a range of contiguous IP addresses.

Network – Network Address Objects are like Range objects in that they comprise multiple hosts, but rather than being bound by specified upper and lower range delimiters, the boundaries are defined by a valid netmask.

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