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BR500 Firewall Problems
Anyone here have experience with the BR500 VPN Firewall / Router and getting Firewall => Traffic Rules working? I'm using the web console, and not Insight.
I have set up From an external IP (W...
Brilliant! That works beautifully - thanks!
I was just thinking about this wrong, and now understand. On my FVS318Gv2, the once screen did both the port fowarding and the access restrictions. On the BR500, if I think of Traffic Rules as JUST iptables, and nothing else, then this makes perfect sense. Always provide the accept rules first, and then drop everything else later. Got it.
I can now move foward ... the fun will be when I start adding more rules, and need re-order the accept and drop rules ... all without a visual editor ... ;-)
Welcome to Netgear Commumity, if you are using BR500, can you tell me the FW image, and describe your topology, steps and expected result in detail?
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