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Chapter 9 Firewall Configuration
Table 40 Firewall > Rules (continued)
LABEL
Active
Source IP
Destination IP
Service
Action
Schedule
Log
Modify
Order
Apply
Cancel
9.7.1 Configuring Firewall Rules
Refer to
Section 8.1 on page 117
Use this screen to create or edit a firewall rule. In the Rules screen, select an index number and
click Add or click a rule's Edit icon to display this screen and refer to the following table for
information on the labels.
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DESCRIPTION
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.
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.
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.
This drop-down list box displays the services to which this firewall rule applies. See
Appendix G on page 401
for more information.
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).
This field tells you whether a schedule is specified (Yes) or not (No).
This field shows you whether a log is created when packets match this rule (Yes) or
not (No).
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.
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.
Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyXEL Device.
Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.
for more information.
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