Outbound Rules (Service Blocking) - NETGEAR ProSAFE SRX5308 Reference Manual

ProSAFE Gigabit Quad WAN SSL VPN Firewall SRX5308
• Bandwidth profiles. After you have a configured a bandwidth profile (see
Bandwidth Profiles

Outbound Rules (Service Blocking)

The VPN firewall allows you to block the use of certain Internet services by computers on
your network. This is called service blocking or port filtering.
Note: See Enable Source MAC Filtering
to block outbound traffic from selected computers that would
otherwise be allowed by the firewall.
The following table describes the fields that define the rules for outbound traffic and that are
common to most Outbound Service screens (see
page 154, and Figure 89
The steps to configure outbound rules are described in the following sections:
• Configure LAN WAN Rules
• Configure DMZ WAN Rules
• Configure LAN DMZ Rules
Table 33. Outbound rules overview
Setting Description
Service The service or application to be covered by this rule. If the service
or application does not display in the list, you need to define it
using the Services screen (see
page 177).
Action The action for outgoing connections covered by this rule:
• BLOCK always
• BLOCK by schedule, otherwise allow
• ALLOW always
• ALLOW by schedule, otherwise block
Note:
is allowed by the default rule.
Note:
by a BLOCK rule. That is, you wish to allow a subset of traffic that
is blocked by another rule.
on page 181), you can assign it to a rule.
on page 160).
Add Customized Services
Any outbound traffic that is not blocked by rules you create
ALLOW rules are useful only if the traffic is already covered
Firewall Protection
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on page 190 for yet another way
Figure 77 on page 148,
on
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Outbound Rules
All rules
All rules