Chapter 10 Firewalls

 

Table 53 Security > Firewall > Rules (continued)

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

Destination IP

This drop-down list box displays the destination addresses or ranges of

 

 

addresses to which this firewall rule applies. Please note that a blank

 

 

source or destination address is equivalent to Any.

 

 

 

 

Service

This drop-down list box displays the services to which this firewall rule

 

 

applies. See Appendix E on page 411 for more information.

 

 

 

 

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 this to save your changes.

 

 

 

 

Cancel

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

 

 

 

 

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