Prestige 334W User’s Guide

13.3 The Firewall, NAT and Remote Management

Figure 13-2 Firewall Rule Directions

13.3.1 LAN-to-WAN rules

LAN-to-WANrules are local network to Internet firewall rules. The default is to forward all traffic from your local network to the Internet.

How can you block certain LAN to WAN traffic?

You may choose to block certain LAN-to-WANtraffic services displayed in the Blocked Services list box are services originating from the LAN.

in the Services screen (click the Services tab). All LAN-to-WANfirewall rules that block those

Blocked LAN-to-WANpackets are considered alerts. Alerts are “higher priority logs” that include system errors, attacks and attempted access to blocked web sites. Alerts appear in red in the View Log screen. You may choose to have alerts e-mailed immediately in the Log Settings screen.

LAN-to-LAN/Prestige means the LAN to the Prestige LAN interface. This is always allowed, as this is how you manage the Prestige from your local computer.

13.3.2 WAN-to-LAN rules

WAN-to-LANrules are Internet to your local network firewall rules. The default is to block all traffic from the Internet to your local network.

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