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Brocade Mobility 7131 Access Point Product Reference Guide (Supporting software release 4.4.0.0 and later) User Manual

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3. Configure the Rules field as required to allow or deny access to selected (enabled) protocols.

Allow or Deny all
protocols, except

Use the drop-down menu to select either

Allow

or

Deny.

The selected setting applies to all

protocols except those with enabled checkboxes and any traffic that is added to the table.
For example, if the adoption rule is to Deny access to all protocols except those listed,
access is allowed only to those selected protocols.

Pre configured Rules

The following protocols are preconfigured with the Mobility 7131 Access Point. To enable a
protocol, check the box next to the protocol name.

HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the protocol for transferring files on
the Web. HTTP is an application protocol running on top of the TCP/IP
suite of protocols, the foundation protocols for the Internet. The HTTP
protocol uses TCP port 80.

TELNET - TELNET is the terminal emulation protocol of TCP/IP. TELNET
uses TCP to achieve a virtual connection between server and client, then
negotiates options on both sides of the connection. TELNET uses TCP
port 23.

FTP - File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is an application protocol using the
Internet's TCP/IP protocols. FTP provides an efficient way to exchange
files between computers on the Internet. FTP uses TCP port 21.

SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a TCP/IP protocol for sending and
receiving email. Due to its limited ability to queue messages at the
receiving end, SMTP is often used with POP3 or IMAP. SMTP sends the
email, and POP3 or IMAP receives the email. SMTP uses TCP port 25.

POP - Post Office Protocol is a TCP/IP protocol intended to permit a
workstation to dynamically access a maildrop on a server host. A
workstation uses POP3 to retrieve email that the server is holding for it.

DNS - Domain Name Service protocol searches for resources using a
database distributed among different name servers.

Add

Click

Add

to create a new table entry.