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13-20 User’s Reference Guide
The five input filters and one output filter that make up Basic Firewall are shown in the table below.
Basic Firewall’s filters play the following roles.
Input filters 1 and 2: These block WAN-originated OpenWindows and X-Windows sessions. Service origination
requests for these protocols use ports 2000 and 6000, respectively. Since these are greater than 1023,
OpenWindows and X-Windows traffic would otherwise be allowed by input filter 4. Input filters 1 and 2 must
precede input filter 4; otherwise they would have no effect since filter 4 would have already forwarded
OpenWindows and X-Windows traffic.
Input filter 3: This filter explicitly forwards all WAN-originated ICMP traffic to permit devices on the WAN to ping
devices on the LAN. Ping is an Internet service that is useful for diagnostic purposes.
Input filters 4 and 5: These filters forward all TCP and UDP traffic, respectively, when the destination port is
greater than 1023. This type of traffic generally does not allow a remote host to connect to the LAN using one
of the potentially intrusive Internet services, such as Telnet, FTP, and WWW.
Output filter 1: This filter forwards all outgoing traffic to make sure that no outgoing connections from the LAN
are blocked.
Basic Firewall is suitable for a LAN containing only client hosts that want to access servers on the WAN, but not
for a LAN containing servers providing services to clients on the WAN. Basic Firewall’s general strategy is to
explicitly forward WAN-originated TCP and UDP traffic to ports greater than 1023. Ports lower than 1024 are the
service origination ports for various Internet services such as FTP, Telnet, and the World Wide Web (WWW).
Setting
Input filter
1
Input filter
2
Input filter
3
Input filter
4
Input filter
5
Output
filter 1
Enabled Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Forward No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Source IP address 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
Source IP address mask 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
Dest. IP address 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
Dest. IP address mask 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
Protocol type TCP TCP ICMP TCP UDP 0
Source port comparison No
Compare
No
Compare
N/A No
Compare
No
Compare
N/A
Source port ID 0 0 N/A 0 0 N/A
Dest. port comparison Equal Equal N/A Greater
Than
Greater
Than
N/A
Dest. port ID 2000 6000 N/A 1023 1023 N/A