User's Manual

Chapter 9 Firewall Configuration
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9.7 Firewall Rules Summary
" The ordering of your rules is very important as rules are applied in turn.
Refer to Section 8.1 on page 117 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 61 Firewall > Rules
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Apply Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyXEL Device.
Cancel Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.
Table 39 Firewall > General (continued)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Table 40 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 default actions in the General screen.
# This is your firewall rule number. The ordering of your rules is important as rules are
applied in turn.