Firewall; Chapter 17 Firewall; Overview; What You Can Do In This Chapter - ZyXEL Communications NBG5715 User Manual

17.1 Overview

Use these screens to enable and configure the firewall that protects your NBG5715 and your LAN
from unwanted or malicious traffic.
Enable the firewall to protect your LAN computers from attacks by hackers on the Internet and
control access between the LAN and WAN. By default the firewall:
• allows traffic that originates from your LAN computers to go to all of the networks.
• blocks traffic that originates on the other networks from going to the LAN.
The following figure illustrates the default firewall action. User A can initiate an IM (Instant
Messaging) session from the LAN to the WAN (1). Return traffic for this session is also allowed (2).
However other traffic initiated from the WAN is blocked (3 and 4).
Figure 73 Default Firewall Action
LAN
A

17.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter

• Use the General screen to enable or disable the NBG5715's firewall
• Use the Services screen enable service blocking, enter/delete/modify the services you want to
block and the date/time you want to block them

17.1.2 What You Need To Know

The following terms and concepts may help as you read through this chapter.
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