P-2302R Series User’s Guide

Figure 57 Firewall: Settings

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 41 Firewall: Settings

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.

Bypass Triangle

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

Route

topology on the network.

 

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

 

directly to a LAN computer without passing through the

 

Prestige. See the appendices for more on triangle route

 

topology and how to deal with this problem.

 

 

LAN to WAN

To log packets related to firewall rules, make sure that Access Control under Log

 

is selected in the Logs, Log Settings screen.

Packets to Log

Choose what LAN to WAN packets to log. Choose from:

 

No Log

 

Log Blocked (blocked LAN to WAN services appear in the Blocked Services text

 

box in the Services screen (with Enable Services Blocking selected))

 

Log All (log all LAN to WAN packets)

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