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USER MANUAL

Peplink Balance Series

C.4 Inbound Access Restriction

C.4.1 Scenario

A firewall is required in order to protect the network from potential hacker attacks and other Internet

security threats.

C.4.2 Solution

Firewall functionality is built into Peplink Balance. By default, inbound access is unrestricted.

Enabling a basic level of protection involves setting up firewall rules.

For example, to set up a firewall rule between the Internet and the private network that monitors Web

access from Internet, click the Add Rule button in the Inbound Firewall Rules table, and then change

the settings according to the following screenshot:

After the fields have been entered as in the screenshot, click Save to add the rule.

Then change the default inbound rule to Deny by clicking the default rule in the Inbound Firewall Rules

table.