Tutorials, 1 security settings for vpn traffic, 1 firewall rule for vpn example – ZyXEL Communications ZyWALL 2 Plus User Manual
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This chapter describes
• how to apply security settings to VPN traffic.
• how to set up your ZyWALL if you have more than one fixed (static) IP address from your
ISP.
• how to allocate bandwidth and apply priorities to traffic that flows out through the
ZyWALL’s WAN port.
4.1 Security Settings for VPN Traffic
The ZyWALL can apply the firewall and content filtering to the traffic going to or from the
ZyWALL’s VPN tunnels. The ZyWALL applies the security settings to the traffic before
encrypting VPN traffic that it sends out or after decrypting received VPN traffic.
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The security settings apply to VPN traffic going to or from the ZyWALL’s VPN
tunnels. They do not apply to other VPN traffic for which the ZyWALL is not
one of the gateways (VPN pass-through traffic).
You can turn on content filtering for all of the ZyWALL’s VPN traffic (regardless of its
direction of travel). You can apply firewall security to VPN traffic based on its direction of
travel. The following examples show how you do this for
the firewall.
4.1.1 Firewall Rule for VPN Example
The firewall provides even more fine-tuned control for VPN tunnels. You can configure
default and custom firewall rules for VPN packets.
Take the following example. You have a LAN FTP server with IP address 192.168.1.4 behind
device A. You could configure a VPN rule to allow the network behind device B to access
your LAN FTP server through a VPN tunnel. Now, if you don’t want other services like chat
or e-mail going to the FTP server, you can configure firewall rules that allow only FTP traffic
to come from VPN tunnels to the FTP server. Furthermore, you can configure the firewall rule
so that only the network behind device B can access the FTP server through a VPN tunnel (not
other remote networks that have VPN tunnels with the ZyWALL).