Firewall & Networking

Manage your Firewall and Networking features and settings.

Network

Add new DNS forwarders or hosts Domain Name System (DNS) services translate domain names into IP addresses, so users can access websites. By default...
Add, edit or delete Link Load Balancing pools You can use Link Load Balancing pools in Source NAT & LLB rules to share traffic originating from IP addresses acro...
Direct Source NAT Firewall traffic You can configure how the Smoothwall Appliance routes traffic between networks (such as routing traffic to the Inter...
Route traffic to downstream Subnets You can choose to split your internal network into subnetworks (Subnets) for increased security and easier network m...
Send Smoothwall Firewall logs to Police CyberAlarm If you use Smoothwall Appliance as your Firewall, you can send Firewall logs to Police CyberAlarm to help them monit...
Add, edit or delete Service objects or groups You can add Service objects and Service object groups for reuse across your Smoothwall Firewall rules, Source NAT &...
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Interfaces

Edit IP addresses for an Interface   If you have changed your internal network, you must update your internal interfaces with the new IP addresses. ...
Set up Gateway failover for an internet line You can use Link Load Balancer (LLB) pools to balance data requests across external connections, increasing the avai...
Add new interface IP addresses You can add IP addresses to the interfaces set up on your Smoothwall Appliance.   Tip If you need to update IP addr...
Turn on Connection monitoring Use Connection monitoring to be notified of potential upstream connectivity issues, so you can more easily or automa...
Delete an Interface or delete an IP address from an Interface This article details how to remove interfaces and IP addresses from interfaces. Tip If you need to update IP addres...

Firewall

Default Smoothwall access rules Smoothwall access rules control internal and external traffic for many services running on the Smoothwall Appliance ...
Domains to allow on your third-party filter or firewall If you use a firewall or filtering system other than Smoothwall, allow these domains in those systems to ensure conn...
Block Application traffic through an Ethernet Bridge Use Ethernet bridging Application blocks to block access to Applications and drop or reject SSH, NTP, or gaming traf...
Add, edit or delete Smoothwall access rules Smoothwall access rules control internal and external traffic for many services running on the Smoothwall Appliance...
Can we export or copy Firewall Rules?   You cannot duplicate, copy or recreate Firewall Rules. You can download a visual copy of your rules if you need t...
Block web traffic from countries or continents Use GeoBlocking rules to block traffic from a country or continent based on its public IP addresses.    Note...
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VPN

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IPSec Subnets
Add an SSL VPN archive   You can create an SSL VPN archive that contains VPN settings, with or without custom scripts. Use this archive to ...
Set up SSL VPN This article outlines how to set up SSL VPN to allow controlled access to site resources from remote locations. Befo...
VPN Tutorials: Example 1 - Preshared Key Authentication Preshared Key Authentication Note: To configure VPNs, you need a Unified Threat Management license. The following tut...