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8800NL DSL Firewall - Manual Oddity

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:04 pm
by DaveDave
On "WAN Service" the manual says "Firewall: Enable to drop all traffic from WAN side. If enabled, all incoming packets by default would be dropped, and please turn to IP Filtering Incoming to add allowing rules. ".

I see the Firewall is enabled by default, but I haven't done anything to IP Filtering (not that I would know what to do anyway), yet I still have a working connection.

Please explain what I'm missing.

Re: 8800NL DSL Firewall - Manual Oddity

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:48 am
by billion_fan
This is because the router has a SPI firewall, which means if a outgoing connection is established by a device the firewall will automatically allow a incoming connection

Re: 8800NL DSL Firewall - Manual Oddity

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:44 am
by DaveDave
Thanks, got it, the manual could be a bit more informative!
[Which is a bit of a general understatement, especially as there is no help built-in to the GUI!).

Cheers

Dave