Lancom Systems LCOS 3.50 User Manual
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LANCOM Reference Manual LCOS 3.50
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Chapter 8: Firewall
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For a network coupling you permit additionally the communication
between the involved networks:
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If you operate e.g. an own web server, you selectively allow access to the
server:
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For diagnostic purposes it is helpful to allow ICMP protocols (e.g. ping):
These rules can now be refined as needed - e.g. by the indication of minimum
and maximum bandwidths for the server access, or by a finer restriction on
certain services, stations or remote sites.
The LANCOM automatically sorts Firewall rules when creating the fil-
ter list. Thereby, the rules are sorted into the filter list on the basis of
their level of detail. First all specific rules are considered, afterwards
the general ones (e.g. Deny All). Examine the filter list in case of com-
plex rule sets, as described in the following section.
Rule
Source
Destination
Action
Service
ALLOW_LAN1_TO_LAN2
LAN1
LAN2
transmit
ANY
ALLOW_LAN2_TO_LAN1
LAN2
LAN1
transmit
ANY
Rule
Source
Destina-
tion
Action
Service
(target port)
ALLOW_WEBSERVER
ANY
Webserver
transmit
HTTP, HTTPS
Rule
Source
Destination
Action
Service
ALLOW_PING
Local network
ANY
transmit
ICMP