Inbound Access Restriction - peplink ONE 20 User Manual

USER MANUAL
Peplink Balance Series
C.4

Inbound Access Restriction

C.4.1 Scenario
A firewall is required in order to protect the network from potential hacker attacks and
other Internet security threats.
C.4.2 Solution
Firewall functionality is builtinto the Peplink Balance. By default, inbound access is
unrestricted. Enabling a basic level of protection involves setting up firewall rules.
For example, in order to protect your private network from external access, you can set
up a firewall rule between the Internet and yourprivate network.To do so,navigate to
Network>Firewall>Access Rules. Then click the Add Rulebutton in theInbound
Firewall Rulestableand change the settings according to the following screenshot:
After the fields have been entered as in the screenshot, click Save to add the rule.
Afterwards, change the default inbound rule toDeny by clicking thedefaultrule in the
Inbound Firewall Rulestable.Click Apply Changes on the top right corner to complete
the process.
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