PLANET IPX-1500 - Manual (Page 38)

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Firewall Configuration
A firewall is designed to prevent unauthorized access to and/or from a private network. It can stop
inappropriate communications into and out of the LAN, preventing hacker attacks. IPX-1500’s built-in
firewall provides hardware based network security via the following two mechanisms. Please select the
Firewall configuration icon:
Firewall service
”Enable”: Enable the Firewall service; ”Disable”: Disable the Firewall service.
Please make sure all the following parameters are set properly before enabling the firewall.
Default firewall policy
Firewall provides Accept mode and Deny mode. The difference between the Accept and Deny mode is
the rule or service you set in detail will be denied to access under the Accept mode but will be permit to
under the Deny mode. On the contrary, the rule or service you don’t set in detail will be permit to access
under the Accept mode but denied under Deny mode.
User defined service
You can define the private rule or service yourself by setting user defined service. The rule you defined
will list on the web. The rule will be added to the service of Firewall policy automatically.
Service Name：give a name to the service and it will be list in the firewall policy.
Service Type：the transit protocol service uses
Service Port：the port service uses