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Chapter 12 Firewall
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12.3 The Firewall Rule Screen
Note: The ordering of your rules is very important as rules are applied in turn.
Refer to Section 12.5 on page 245 for more information.
Click Security > Firewall > Rules to bring up the following screen. This screen
displays a list of the configured firewall rules. Note the order in which the rules are
listed.
Figure 142 Security > Firewall > Rules
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 73 Security > Firewall > Rules
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Firewall Rules
Storage
Space in Use
This read-only bar shows how much of the ZyXEL Device's memory for
recording firewall rules it is currently using. When you are using 80% or
less of the storage space, the bar is green. When the amount of space
used is over 80%, the bar is red.
Packet
Direction
Use the drop-down list box to select a direction of travel of packets for
which you want to configure firewall rules.
Create a new
rule after rule
number
Select an index number and click Add to add a new firewall rule after the
selected index number. For example, if you select “6”, your new rule
becomes number 7 and the previous rule 7 (if there is one) becomes rule
8.
The following read-only fields summarize the rules you have created that
apply to traffic traveling in the selected packet direction. The firewall rules
that you configure (summarized below) take priority over the general
firewall action settings in the General screen.
# This is your firewall rule number. The ordering of your rules is important
as rules are applied in turn.
Active This field displays whether a firewall is turned on or not. Select the check
box to enable the rule. Clear the check box to disable the rule.