9 administration - firewall settings wizard, Administration - firewall settings wizard, Trusted network – Barracuda Networks VERSION SP4 User Manual

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120 Barracuda NG Personal Firewall

Select a report and click

Delete

to delete the report from the Test Report window.

9.9

Administration - Firewall Settings Wizard

Options available in the Firewall Settings view allow you to adjust the preconfigured local rule set of
the Barracuda NG Personal Firewall. Setting changes triggers either rule creation, deletion or traffic
policy change. Use this configuration area to customize the preconfigured rule set easily.

The following options are available for customisation:

The settings defined in this window by default are triggered by the specifications defined during installation
(5.2 Custom Installation, page 70).

List 9–11 Firewall Settings parameters > Trusted Domain Membership

Parameter

Description

Trusted Network

Network assignments and references in the network object that has been defined as trustworthy are updated
dynamically when network adapters are added to the system with trust assignment "trusted" or when IP
address configuration of a trusted adapter changes (9.8.6 Adapters, page 108). By default, the

Trusted

Network

option points to the preconfigured

TrustedNet

object (9.8.7 Networks, page 110). You may change

the setting to another available network object. Be aware of possible implications. Set to

No

to disable this

feature.

Domain Member

This option can only be set to

yes

when a network object has been configured as

Trusted Network

. Setting

to

yes

creates and activates default rules allowing applications required in Microsoft Windows domains.

Windows File Sharing

This option can only be set to

yes

when a network object has been configured as

Trusted Network

. When

set to

yes

incoming connections to local printer(s) and files are allowed.

Allow NetBIOS

Incoming

Setting to

yes

(default:

no

) allows NetBIOS traffic.

Outgoing

Setting to

yes

(default:

no

) allows NetBIOS traffic.

List 9–12 Firewall Settings parameters > Miscellaneous

Parameter

Description

Interactive Alarm Notifications

Ask for unknown incoming
connections

Set this value to

yes

to enforce manual confirmation for all incoming connection attempts. Confirmation

for connection establishment grant is going to be requested by a notification pop-up. For information
details on design of this notification window see 9.9.2 Automatic Rule Configuration, page 122.

Ask for unknown outgoing
connections

Set this value to

yes

to enforce manual confirmation for all unknown outgoing connection attempts.

Confirmation for connection establishment grant will be requested by a notification pop-up. For information
details on design of this notification window see 9.9.2 Automatic Rule Configuration, page 122.

Ask for adapter update confirmation

Setting to

yes

(default) triggers a pop-up, when settings assigned to a network adapter change

(9.9.1 Automatic Adapter Configuration, page 121).

Connectivity

Connect to the Internet with ADSL
(PPTP)

Setting to

yes

creates a pass rule named ADSL in the Outgoing tab of the firewall configuration that is

needed for Internet connections via ADSL.
The service object used in this rule amongst others implements the services and protocols listed in
table 9–11.

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