ZyXEL Communications P-2304R-P1 Series - Manual (Page 139)

Chapter 12 Firewall
P-2304R-P1 Series User’s Guide
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Blocked LAN-to-WAN packets are considered alerts. Alerts are “higher priority logs” that
include system errors, attacks and attempted access to blocked web sites. Alerts appear in red
in the View Log screen. You may choose to have alerts e-mailed immediately in the Log
Settings screen.
LAN-to-LAN/ZyXEL Device means the LAN to the ZyXEL Device LAN interface. This is
always allowed, as this is how you manage the ZyXEL Device from your local computer.
12.1.4.2 WAN-to-LAN rules
WAN-to-LAN rules are Internet to your local network firewall rules. The default is to block
all traffic from the Internet to your local network.
How can you forward certain WAN to LAN traffic? You may allow traffic originating from
the WAN to be forwarded to the LAN by:
• Configuring NAT port forwarding rules.
• Configuring One-to-One and Many-One-to-One NAT mapping rules in the web
configurator Address Mapping screen.
• Configuring WAN or LAN & WAN access for services in the Remote Management
screens. When you allow remote management from the WAN, you are actually
configuring WAN-to-WAN/ZyXEL Device firewall rules. WAN-to-WAN/ZyXEL
Device firewall rules are Internet to the ZyXEL Device WAN interface firewall rules. The
default is to block all such traffic. When you decide what WAN-to-LAN packets to log,
you are in fact deciding what WAN-to-LAN and WAN-to-WAN/ZyXEL Device packets
to log.
Forwarded WAN-to-LAN packets are not considered alerts.
12.2 Triangle Route
When the firewall is on, your ZyXEL Device acts as a secure gateway between your LAN and
the Internet. In an ideal network topology, all incoming and outgoing network traffic passes
through the ZyXEL Device to protect your LAN against attacks.
Figure 69 Ideal Firewall Setup
12.2.1 The “Triangle Route” Problem
A traffic route is a path for sending or receiving data packets between two Ethernet devices.
You may have more than one connection to the Internet (through one or more ISPs). If an
alternate gateway is on the LAN (and its IP address is in the same subnet as the ZyXEL
Device’s LAN IP address), the “triangle route” (also called asymmetrical route) problem may
occur. The steps below describe the “triangle route” problem.