ZyXEL Communications P-660HW-TX V3 10.3 The Firewall Rule Screen

Chapter 10 Firewalls

10.3 The Firewall Rule Screen

Note: The ordering of your rules is very important as rules are applied in turn.

Refer to Section 10.5 on page 205 for more information.

Click Security > Firewall > Rules to bring up the following screen. This screen displays a list of the configured firewall rules. Note the order in which the rules are listed.

Figure 78 Security > Firewall > Rules

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 53 Security > Firewall > Rules

LABEL	DESCRIPTION
Firewall Rules	This read-only bar shows how much of the ZyXEL Device's memory for
Storage	recording firewall rules it is currently using. When you are using 80% or
Space in Use	less of the storage space, the bar is green. When the amount of space
	used is over 80%, the bar is red.
Packet	Use the drop-down list box to select a direction of travel of packets for
Direction	which you want to configure firewall rules.
Create a new	Select an index number and click Add to add a new firewall rule after the
rule after rule	selected index number. For example, if you select “6”, your new rule
number	becomes number 7 and the previous rule 7 (if there is one) becomes rule
	8.
	The following read-only fields summarize the rules you have created that
	apply to traffic traveling in the selected packet direction. The firewall rules
	that you configure (summarized below) take priority over the general
	firewall action settings in the General screen.
#	This is your firewall rule number. The ordering of your rules is important
	as rules are applied in turn.
Active	This field displays whether a firewall is turned on or not. Select the check
	box to enable the rule. Clear the check box to disable the rule.
Source IP	This drop-down list box displays the source addresses or ranges of
	addresses to which this firewall rule applies. Please note that a blank
	source or destination address is equivalent to Any.

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