Ip Firewall Rules - Motorola WiNG 5.6 Reference Manual

13.3.23.3 IP Firewall Rules

Firewall
Create firewall rules to let any computer to send traffic to, or receive traffic from, programs, system services, computers or
users. Firewall rules can be created to take one of the three actions listed below that match the rule's criteria:
• Allow a connection
• Allow a connection only if it is secured through the use of Internet Protocol security
• Block a connection
Rules can be created for either inbound or outbound traffic. To view the IP firewall rules:
1. Select the Statistics
2. Select System
connected access points.
3. Select Firewall
4. Select IP Firewall
The IP Firewall Rules
Precedence
Friendly String
Hit Count
Refresh
menu from the Web UI.
from the navigation pane (on the left-hand side of the screen). Expand a RF Domain and select one of its
and expand the menu to reveal its sub menu
Rules.
Figure 13-78 Access Point - Firewall IP Firewall Rules screen
screen displays the following:
Displays the precedence value applied to packets. The rules within an Access Control Entries
(ACL) list are based on precedence values. Every rule has a unique precedence value between
1 and 5000. You cannot add two rules with the same precedence.
The friendly string provides information as to which firewall the rules apply.
Displays the number of times each firewall rule has been triggered.
Select the Refresh button to update the screen's statistics counters to their latest values.
items.
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