Prestige 2602H/HW Series User’s Guide

14.4.3 Alerts

Alerts are reports on events, such as attacks, that you may want to know about right away. You can choose to generate an alert when an attack is detected in the Edit Rule screen (select the Send Alert Message to Administrator When Matched check box) or when a rule is matched in the Edit Rule screen (see Section 14.6.1 on page 188). When an event generates an alert, a message can be immediately sent to an e-mail account that you specify in the Log Settings screen (see the chapter on logs).

14.5 Configuring Basic Firewall Settings

Click Firewall and then Default Policy to display the following screen. Activate the firewall by selecting the Firewall Enabled check box as seen in the following screen.

Figure 73 Firewall: Default Policy

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 54 Firewall: Default Policy

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Enable Firewall

Select this check box to activate the firewall. The Prestige performs access control

 

and protects against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks when the firewall is activated.

Allow

Select this check box to have the Prestige firewall permit the use of triangle route

Asymmetrical

topology on the network.

Route

 

 

Note: Allowing asymmetrical routes may let traffic from the WAN go

 

directly to a LAN computer without passing through the

 

Prestige. See Appendix F on page 489 for more on triangle

 

route topology and how to deal with this problem.

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