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Chapter 11 Firewall Configuration 187
11.6.1 Configuring Firewall Rules
Refer to Section 10.1 on page 169 for more information.
In the Rules screen, select an index number and click Add or click a rule’s Edit icon to display
this screen and refer to the following table for information on the labels.
Action This field displays whether the firewall 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 (Permit).
Schedule This field tells you whether a schedule is specified (Yes) or not (No).
Log This field shows you whether a log is created when packets match this rule (Yes) or
not (No).
Modify Click the Edit icon to go to the screen where you can edit the rule.
Click the Remove icon to delete an existing firewall rule. A window displays asking
you to confirm that you want to delete the firewall rule. Note that subsequent firewall
rules move up by one when you take this action.
Order Click the Move icon to display the Move the rule to field. Type a number in the Move
the rule to field and click the Move button to move the rule to the number that you
typed. The ordering of your rules is important as they are applied in order of their
numbering.
Apply Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyXEL Device.
Cancel Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.
Table 65 Firewall Rules (continued)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
