Chapter 5: Firewall, Failover and Out of Band
118 Console Server & RIM Gateway User Manual
Action: Block
The firewall rules are processed in a set order- from top to bottom. So rule placement is important. For
example with the following rules, all traffic coming in over the Network Interface is blocked except when it comes from two
nominated IP addresses (SysAdmin and Tony):
To allow all incoming traffic on all
interfaces from the SysAdmin:
To allow all incoming
traffic from Tony:
To block all incoming traffic
from the Network Interface:
However if the Rule Order above was to be changed so the “Block Everyone Else” rule was second on the list then the
traffic coming in over the Network Interface from Tony would be blocked.
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