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Chapter 7 Firewall Screens
Click FIREWALL, then the Rule Summary tab to open the screen.
Figure 38 Firewall: Rule Summary
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 31 Firewall: Rule Summary
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Firewall Rules
Storage Space
in Use
This read-only bar shows how much of the ZyWALL's memory for recording firewall
rules it is currently using. When you are using 80% or less of the storage space, the
bar is green. When the amount of space used is over 80%, the bar is red.
Packet Direction Use the drop-down list box to select a direction of travel of packets for which you
want to configure firewall rules.
Default Policy
This field displays the default action and log policy you selected in the Default Rule
screen for the packet direction shown in the field above.
The following read-only fields summarize the rules you have created that apply to traffic traveling in the
selected packet direction. The firewall rules that you configure (summarized below) take priority over
the general firewall action settings above.
Rule
This is your firewall rule number. The ordering of your rules is important as rules are
applied in turn. Click + to expand or - to collapse the Source Address, Destination
Address and Service Type drop down lists.
Active
This field displays whether a firewall is turned on (Y) or not (N).
Source Address This drop-down list box displays the source addresses or ranges of addresses to
which this firewall rule applies. Please note that a blank source or destination
address is equivalent to Any.
Destination
Address
This drop-down list box displays the destination addresses or ranges of addresses to
which this firewall rule applies. Please note that a blank source or destination
address is equivalent to Any.
Service Type
This drop-down list box displays the services to which this firewall rule applies.
Please note that a blank service type is equivalent to Any. See
for more information.
Action
This is the specified action for that rule, either Block or Forward. Note that Block
means the firewall silently discards the packet.
Schedule
This field tells you whether a schedule is specified (Yes) or not (No).