Chapter 13 Firewall

13.3.1 Creating Incoming Firewall Rules

In the Incoming screen, click Add to display this screen and refer to the following table for information on the labels.

Figure 139 Firewall > Incoming: Add

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 85 Firewall > Incoming: Add

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

Select this check box to enable the rule.

 

 

Filter Name

Enter a descriptive name of up to 16 printable English keyboard

 

characters, including spaces.

 

To add a firewall rule, you need to configure at least one of the

 

following fields (except the Interface field).

 

 

Protocol

Select the transport layer protocol (TCP/UDP, TCP, UDP or ICMP)

 

and enter the protocol (service type) number in the port field. Select

 

NONE to apply the rule to any protocol.

 

 

Source IP

Enter the source IP address in dotted decimal notation.

Address

 

 

 

Source Subnet

Enter the source subnet mask.

Mask

 

 

 

Source Port

Enter a single port number or the range of port numbers of the source.

 

 

Destination IP

Enter the destination IP address in dotted decimal notation.

Address

 

 

 

Destination

Enter the destination subnet mask.

Subnet Mask

 

 

 

Destination Port

Enter the port number of the destination.

 

 

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