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The default rule for WAN to LAN traffic blocks all incoming connections (WAN to LAN). If you wish to allow certain WAN users to have access to your LAN, you will need to create custom rules to allow it.

11.4.2 Alerts

Alerts are reports on events, such as attacks, that you may want to know about right away. You can choose to generate an alert when an attack is detected in the Edit Rule screen (select the Send Alert Message to Administrator When Matched check box) or when a rule is matched in the Edit Rule screen. When an event generates an alert, a message can be immediately sent to an e-mail account that you specify in the Log Settings screen (see the chapter on logs).

11.5 Configuring Default Firewall Policy

Click Firewall and then Default Policy to display the following screen. Activate the firewall by selecting the Firewall Enabled check box as seen in the following screen.

Refer to Section 10.1 on page 118 for more information.

Figure 51 Firewall: Default Policy

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 37 Firewall: Default Policy

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Firewall Enabled

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.

Allow

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

Asymmetrical

topology on the network. See the appendix for more on triangle route topology.

Route

 

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