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ZyXEL Communications Centralized Network Management Vantage CNM User Manual

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Chapter 6 Device Security Settings

Vantage CNM User’s Guide

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Figure 51 Device Operation > Device Configuration > Security > Firewall > Rule Summary

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 41 Device Operation > Device Configuration > Security > Firewall > Rule Summary

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Direction Summary

Firewall rules are grouped based on the direction of travel of packets to
which they apply. Select a direction from the drop-down list box.

Packet Direction

Use the drop-down list box to select a direction of travel of packets for
which you want to configure firewall rules.

ACL Rule Set Parameters for
Packet Direction Chosen

Log packets that don’t match
these rules.

Select the check box to create a log (when the above action is taken)
for packets that are traveling in the selected direction and do not match
any of the rules below.

Action for packets that don’t
match firewall rules

Select what action the device should take for packets that don’t match
any of the firewall rules you configured.
Select Drop to silently discard the packets without sending a TCP reset
packet or an ICMP destination-unreachable message to the sender.
Select Reject to deny the packets and send a TCP reset packet (for a
TCP packet) or an ICMP destination-unreachable message (for a UDP
packet) to the sender.
Select Permit to allow the passage of the packets.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the device.

Reset

Click this to reset this screen to its last saved values.