Selecting An Initial Firewall Level - McAfee SG310 Administration Manual

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Selecting an initial firewall level

Selecting an initial firewall level
UTM Firewall devices support packet filtering rules that can be used to restrict access to parts of your
network. The firewall dialog enables you to select a firewall level, and have the associated packet filtering
rules applied automatically. See
Figure 24 Quick Setup Wizard – Firewall dialog
Select a Firewall Configuration option
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• Block Everything – Blocks all traffic that is not expressly allowed by a packet filtering rule.
• Ultra / VPN access – Allows VPN, Dialin and LAN traffic to move through the firewall. Denies all
Internet traffic
• High / Web and VPN access – Allows VPN, Dialin, LAN, HTTP and HTTPS traffic to move through the
firewall. Denies other common traffic types.
• Medium / Common Internet access – Allows VPN, Dialin, LAN, HTTP, HTTPS, and most common
types of traffic to move through the firewall. Denies peer to peer (P2P) traffic unless that traffic is
tunneled through another protocol (such as P2P over HTTP).
• Low / All Internet access – Allows all Internet traffic to pass through the firewall.
Click Next. The Confirm settings dialog appears.
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Packet filtering.
(Figure 24).