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RX3042H User's Manual

Conﬁguring Firewall

Table 9.3. ACL Rule Conﬁguration Parameters

Field Description

Filter Direction

– choose the available option from the drop-down

list to conﬁgure the ACL.

For dual-WAN conﬁguration, two options are available – LAN ->WAN and

WAN ->LAN.

For WAN + DMZ configuration, six options are available – LAN ->WAN,

WAN ->LAN, LAN ->DMZ, DMZ->LAN, WAN ->DMZ and DMZ ->WAN.

Add New

Click on this option to add a new ACL rule.

Rule Number

Select a rule from the drop-down list, to modify its

settings.

Move to

This option allows you to set a priority for this rule. The RX3042H Firewall

acts on packets based on the priority of the rules. Set a priority by specifying

a number for its position in the list of rules:

1 (First)

This number marks the highest priority.

Other

numbers

Select other numbers to indicate the priority you wish to

assign to the rule.

Log

Click on the “Enable” or “Disable” radio button to enable or disable logging for

this ACL rule.

Action

Allow

Select this button to conﬁgure the rule as an allow rule.

This rule when bound to the Firewall will allow matching

packets to pass through.

Deny

Select this button to conﬁgure the rule as a deny rule.

This rule when bound to the Firewall will not allow

matching packets to pass through.

Route to

– keep the setting to “AUTO” unless packets are routed to speciﬁc interface.

Available options include AUTO, eth1 (WAN1), eth2 (WAN2), PPP1 (WAN1-

unnumbered), PPP1 (WAN2-unnumbered), PPP3 (WAN1-PPPoE1), PPP4

(WAN1-PPPoE2), PPP5 (WAN2-PPPoE1), PPP6 (WAN2-PPPoE2). If WAN

interface is set to DMZ mode, only AUTO, eth1, PPP1/3/4 are available.

These options are selectable from the drop-down list. If AUTO is selected,

the router will route the packets based on the information in the routing

table.