ZyXEL Communications P-660HW-D Series User Manual

P-660HW-D Series User’s Guide

Chapter 10 Firewall Configuration

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 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 57   Firewall Rules (continued)