Chapter 20 Firewall

Table 70 Security > Firewall > Services (continued)

LABEL

 

DESCRIPTION

Enable Firewall Rule

 

 

Enable Firewall

 

Select this check box to activate the firewall rules that you define (see Add Firewall Rule

Rule

 

below)

 

 

 

Apply

 

Click Apply to save the settings.

 

 

 

Add Firewall Rule

 

 

 

Service Name

 

Enter a name that identifies or describes the firewall rule.

 

 

 

MAC Address

 

Enter the MAC address of the computer for which the firewall rule applies.

 

 

 

Dest IP Address

 

Enter the IP address of the computer to which traffic for the application or service is

 

 

entering.

 

 

The Router applies the firewall rule to traffic initiating from this computer.

 

 

 

Source IP

 

Enter the IP address of the computer that initializes traffic for the application or service.

Address

 

The Router applies the firewall rule to traffic initiating from this computer.

 

 

 

 

 

Protocol

 

Select the protocol (TCP, UDP, ICMP or None) used to transport the packets for which you

 

 

want to apply the firewall rule.

 

 

 

Dest Port

 

Enter the port number/range of the destination that define the traffic type, for example TCP

Range

 

port 80 defines web traffic.

 

 

 

Source Port

 

Enter the port number/range of the source that define the traffic type, for example TCP port

Range

 

80 defines web traffic.

 

 

 

Add Rule

 

Click Add to save the firewall rule.

 

 

 

Firewall Rule

 

 

 

 

#

 

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

 

 

in turn.

 

 

 

Service Name

 

This is a name that identifies or describes the firewall rule.

 

 

 

MAC Address

 

This is the MAC address of the computer for which the firewall rule applies.

 

 

 

Dest IP Address

 

This is the IP address of the computer to which traffic for the application or service is

 

 

entering.

 

 

 

Source IP

 

This is the IP address of the computer from which traffic for the application or service is

Address

 

initialized.

 

 

 

Protocol

 

This is the protocol (TCP, UDP, ICMP or None) used to transport the packets for which you

 

 

want to apply the firewall rule.

 

 

 

Dest Port

 

This is the port number/range of the destination that define the traffic type, for example

Range

 

TCP port 80 defines web traffic.

 

 

 

Source Port

 

This is the port number/range of the source that define the traffic type, for example TCP

Range

 

port 80 defines web traffic.

 

 

 

Action

 

Drop - Traffic matching the conditions of the firewall rule are stopped.

 

 

 

Delete

 

Click this to remove the firewall rule.

 

 

 

Reset

 

Click Reset to start configuring this screen again.

 

 

 

See Appendix E on page 261 for commonly used services and port numbers.

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