Prestige 2602HW 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 176). 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 67 Firewall: Default Policy

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 47 Firewall: Default Policy

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Firewall Enabled

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. See the appendix for more on triangle route topology.

Route

 

Packet Direction

This is the direction of travel of packets (LAN to LAN/Router, LAN to WAN, WAN

 

to WAN/Router or WAN to LAN.

 

Firewall rules are grouped based on the direction of travel of packets to which they

 

apply. For example, LAN to LAN/Router means packets traveling from a

 

computer/subnet on the LAN to either another computer/subnet on the LAN

 

interface of the Prestige or the Prestige itself.

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