Prestige 652H/HW

5.7 Procedure for Configuring Firewall Rules

From the main screen, click Advanced Setup, Firewall and then Rule Summary (for either local network to Internet rules or Internet to local network rules) to open the Summary screen. The following table describes the fields in this screen.

 

Table 6 Summary Screen

 

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

The default action

Should packets that do not match the following rules be blocked or forwarded? Make your

for packets not

choice from the drop down list box. Note that “block” means the firewall silently discards

matching following

the packet.

rules

 

 

 

Default Permit Log

Click this check box to log all matched rules in the ACL default set.

 

 

The following read-only fields summarize the rules you have created that apply to traffic traveling in the selected packet direction. The firewall rules that you configure (summarized below) take priority over the general firewall action settings above.

No.

This is your firewall rule number. The ordering of your rules is important as rules are

 

applied in turn. The Move field below allows you to reorder your rules.

 

 

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