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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 ... ;-)
Very appreciate the description in detail, your requirment, establish the connecion from Cloud to Local with port 5984, allow public address 34.233.185.29 to access only, I think you can achieve that with BR500.
Step1: using port forwarding under firewall, to mapping 5984, after that, Cloud can reach local on 5984 with BR500 WAN IP address
Step2: Create two traffic rules under firewall, allow the connection between Cloud and local
- rule1, From local 192.168.1.170 in LAN to 34.233.185.29 on WAN, action Accept
- rule2, From local 192.168.1.170 in LAN to any rounter IP outside on WAN, action Drop
Let's know if you have any unclear, thanks
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 ... ;-)
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