Prestige 2602HW Series Quick Start Guide

6.7 Enabling the Firewall with Default Policy

From the main screen, 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 21 Default Policy

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

 

Table 6 Firewall: Default Policy

 

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Firewall

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

Enabled

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

Asymmetrical

triangle route topology on the network. See the appendix for more on

Route

triangle route topology.

 

 

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