Chapter 12 Firewall Configuration

 

Table 65 Firewall Rules (continued)

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

Action

This field displays whether the firewall silently discards packets (Drop),

 

 

discards packets and sends a TCP reset packet or an ICMP destination-

 

 

unreachable message to the sender (Reject) or allows the passage of packets

 

 

(Permit)

 

Schedule

This field tells you whether a schedule is specified (Yes) or not (No).

 

 

 

 

Log

This field shows you whether a log is created when packets match this rule

 

 

(Yes) or not (No).

 

 

 

 

Modify

Click the Edit icon to go to the screen where you can edit the rule.

 

 

Click the Remove icon to delete an existing firewall rule. A window displays

 

 

asking you to confirm that you want to delete the firewall rule. Note that

 

 

subsequent firewall rules move up by one when you take this action.

 

 

 

 

Order

Click the Move icon to display the Move the rule to field. Type a number in the

 

 

Move the rule to field and click the Move button to move the rule to the

 

 

number that you typed. The ordering of your rules is important as they are

 

 

applied in order of their numbering.

 

 

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes to the ZyXEL Device.

 

 

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

 

12.6.1 Configuring Firewall Rules

Refer to Section 11.1 on page 159 for more information.

In the Rules screen, select an index number and click Add or click a rule’s Edit icon to display this screen and refer to the following table for information on the labels.

 

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