6 adapters, Adapters – Barracuda Networks VERSION SP4 User Manual

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108 Barracuda NG Personal Firewall

9.8.6

Adapters

The

Adapters

view allows you to view and configure network adapters available on the system.

Adapters may be employed in firewall rules, in order to restrict rule processing to a specific adapter or
a set of adapters only.

The listing is divided into the following columns:

In the

Adapter Objects

view, several

dynamic

adapter objects (flagged with the icon) are

preconfigured.

The following objects (assigned with status

multi

) are available:

Adapter [Dial-up]

This object summarizes all dial-up adapters available on the system (for example, UMTS,
ISDN, and modem cards).

Adapter [Ethernet]

This object summarizes all Ethernet adapters available on the system (for example, LAN de-
vices).

Adapter [Wireless]

Fig. 9–19 Adapter objects window

Table 9–8

Adapter Object view details

Column

Description

Name

Name of the adapter object.

Referenced by

Number of references pointing to the adapter object

Status

Current connection status of the adapter object (

connected

/

disabled

/

multi

)

IP’s

IP addresses and / or references assigned to the adapter object

Trust

Trust type assigned to the adapter object (

trusted

/

untrusted

)

Comment

Optional adapter object description

Dynamic objects are updated at runtime when adapter configuration changes and cannot be edited manually. In order
to work,

Automatic Adapter Assignment must be selected in the Firewall Settings (9.4.1 Firewall Menu, page 91).

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