Technicolor - Thomson 605 User Manual

Expert Configuration

E-DOC-CTC-20050429-0104 v1.0

Buttons

Click:

. to create a new firewall level starting from the selected firewall 

level. For more information, see 

 to activate the selected firewall rule.

Loose UDP tracking

If this check box is:

Selected:
The source port of the original UDP connection is opened for all hosts which 
want to connect to this port.

Cleared:
Only returning UDP streams belonging to the same connection are allowed.

Game & Application

Sharing Allowed

Select this check box to allow the firewall to open ports for "games and application 
sharing" in order to use applications like Peer-to-Peer file sharing (PtoP), Internet 
Games, Web serving, FTP serving, WebCams, IRC DDC, and Instant Messaging such 
as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MS Messenger.

Proxying allowed

Select this check box to allow the firewall to act as a proxy server.
A proxy server acts both as a server and a client for the purpose of making requests 
on behalf of other clients. Requests are serviced internally or by passing them on to 
other servers. A proxy interprets, and, if necessary, rewrites a request message 
before forwarding it. For example HTTP Intercept.

To save the new configuration, click Save All.

This can be configured for example for gaming: to allow the client to 
receive information from other players of the same online game, loose 
udp tracking should be configured to allow incoming packets on the 
port that was used to start the communication with the server.