Siemens 4100 Series User Manual

Router User’s Guide

 

Monitoring Network Health

 

 

To add a new rule: 

1.  Type up to a five digit numeric value in the Rule No box to uniquely identify the rule. 

2. Select 

either 

Permit or Deny from the Access drop-down menu. Select Permit to allow the rule and 

Deny to prohibit the rule. 

3. Select 

either 

Inbound or Outbound from the Direction drop-down menu. Inbound refers to data 

coming into the Router, while Outbound refers to data transmitted from the Router. 

4.  Optionally, select the Disable stateful inspection for packets matching this rule to prevent the 

firewall from creating a stateful inspection session for packets matched on this rule. 

5.  Optionally, select the Create a log entry for packets matching this rule. When selected, an entry is 

placed in the log file when packets match this rule. 

6. Click 

Next. This displays the “Source & Destination Definition” window. 

 

7. Under 

the 

Source heading, select a network connection from the Network Interface drop-down 

menu.

 

8.  Select one of the following options:

 

•  Any IP Address  

Select this option if this rule applies to any IP address from the source. 

•  This IP Address 

Select this option if a rule applies to a specific IP address from the source.  

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