WatchGuard Technologies SOHO - Manual (Page 71)

User Guide 5.0 71
Firewall Options
Denying FTP access to the Trusted Network
interface
You can configure the SOHO to deny FTP access to Trusted
interface.
1 Enable the checkbox labeled Do not allow FTP access to
Trusted Network.
2 Click the Submit button.
C AUTION
When performing an update of the system firmware, this option must be
disabled or the procedure will fail an the unit becomes unrecoverable and
must be reset to the factory defaults. If this inadvertently occurs, please
see “Resetting a SOHO to the Factory Defaults” on page 23.
SOCKS implementation for the SOHO
SOCKS is a network proxy filter that works with SOCKS-aware
applications. A typical SOCKS-dependent application requires that
several sockets be opened and made available to the Internet.
When a SOCKS-aware application (ICQ is SOCKS-aware) registers
with the SOCKS server, SOCKS is able to manage the need of the
application to have many ports open.
To use an application with SOCKS, the application must be
configured with the SOCKS server information.
Setting up your SOCKS application for use with the SOHO
requires no reconfiguration of the SOHO appliance itself. Your
SOHO acts as the SOCKS proxy. You must, however, configure
your application to be compliant with the SOHO implementation
of SOCKS version 5.
The SOHO SOCKS feature has the following characteristics and
limitations: