Chapter 15 Firewall
VMG4380-B10A / VMG4325-B10A User’s Guide
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 78
Security > Firewall > Access Control
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
DoS Protection
DoS (Denial of Service) attacks can flood your Internet connection with invalid packets and
connection requests, using so much bandwidth and so many resources that Internet access
becomes unavailable.
Select the
Enable
check box to enable protection against DoS attacks.
Add new ACL
rule
Click this to go to add a filter rule for incoming or outgoing IP traffic.
#
This is the index number of the entry.
Name
This displays the name of the rule.
Src IP
This displays the source IP addresses to which this rule applies. Please note that a blank
source address is equivalent to
Any
.
Dst IP
This displays the destination IP addresses to which this rule applies. Please note that a
blank destination address is equivalent to
Any
.
Service
This displays the transport layer protocol that defines the service and the direction of traffic
to which this rule applies.
Action
This field displays whether the rule silently discards packets (
DROP
), discards packets and
sends a TCP reset packet or an ICMP destination-unreachable message to the sender
(
REJECT
) or allows the passage of packets (
ACCEPT
).
Modify
Click the
Edit
icon to edit the rule.
Click the
Delete
icon to delete an existing rule. Note that subsequent rules move up by one
when you take this action.
Click the
Move To
icon to change the order of the rule. Enter the number in the # field.