The page Firewall Configuration gives the possibility to setup a firewall, to configure the security level and to enable the NAT (Network Address Translation) and IDS services on Quadro.
A Firewall is a security service configured by the QX200 administrator based on various criteria. The firewall allows or blocks traffic based on policies, services and/or IP addresses. The firewall has several levels of security policies (low, medium, high). Additional service based rules may be added by the administrator. Filtering rules will take effect only if the Firewall has been enabled and are independent from the selected Firewall Security level.
NAT (Network Address Translation) is used to allow QX200 LAN members to connect to the Internet using QX200's WAN IP address. The Quadro/NAT also takes care about forwarding incoming packets from the WAN to the PCs or devices in the QX200's LAN.
The IDS (Intrusion Detection System) is a kind of firewall, but together with deleting dangerous packets or packets including intrusion attacks, IDS creates a log file with information on the dropped packets and the senders responsible for those packets. The log can be viewed from the IDS Log page and notifications about them can be sent to the user in various ways such as email, flashing LED, display notification.
To enable one of these settings, select the corresponding checkboxes:
To specify the level of the firewall security, enable one of the radio buttons:
The Advances Settings link refers to the Advanced Firewall Settings page where QX200 privacy can be configured.
The View Filtering Rules link opens a new page, where filtering rules for different types of traffic and access through the system can be defined.