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Chapter 9 Firewall

NBG410W3G Series User’s Guide

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9.8.1 Firewall Edit Rule

In the Rule Summary screen, click the edit icon or the insert icon to display the Firewall Edit
Rule
screen.
Use this screen to create or edit a firewall rule. Refer to the following table for information on
the labels.
See

Section 9.1 on page 167

for more information about the firewall.

Action

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).

Sch.

This field tells you whether a schedule is specified (Yes) or not (No).

Log

This field shows you whether a log is created when packets match this rule (Yes) or

not (No).

Modify

Click the edit icon to go to the screen where you can edit the rule.
Click the delete 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 insert icon to display the screen where you can configure a new firewall

rule. The insert icon at the top of the row creates the new firewall rule before the

others. The individual firewall rule insert icons create a new firewall rule after the

row’s firewall rule.
Click the move icon, type an index number, and press Enter 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.

Table 43 SECURITY > FIREWALL > Rule Summary

LABEL

DESCRIPTION