Firewall And Security Testing

When exploring firewall and security testing, it's essential to consider various aspects and implications. Firewall: functional difference between port forwards and traffic rules. Hello, I was following some tutorials for setting up a Wireguard server. This one uses a port forward as follows: While the official OpenWrt tutorial advises to use the following traffic rule uci set firewall.wg="rule" uci set firewall.wg.name="Allow-WireGuard" uci set firewall.wg.src="wan" uci set firewall.wg.dest_port="${VPN_PORT}" uci set firewall.wg.proto="udp" uci set firewall.wg.target ... Firewall rules (forwarding) - OpenWrt Forum. This perspective suggests that, the zone level forward rule controls forwarding between two or more networks that are in the same firewall zone.

This is intra-zone forwarding. If that is set to accept, it will allow those networks to communicate with each other unless there are any other rules filtering/prohibiting those connections. - Installing and Using OpenWrt - OpenWrt Forum. The firewall is part of the kernel, it's not an independent process, and there is nothing running while the firewall is active.

This perspective suggests that, what the firewall service does is to load the rules from the config files, configure the rules in the kernel, and finish. Recommended firewall settings - Network and Wireless Configuration .... If you pull up Network>Firewall what are the recommended settings for "General" and "Zones?" Upon reading google hits, many are showing a "Lan -> wan" setting of "reject" for forward whereas the out-of-the-box settings have that set to "accept" including this OpenWRT wiki. Firewall / block WAN connections to specific device. Hi, In my firewall rules I set a test rule for device A with mac-addr XYZ to block internet access.

These is the rule as it show in LUCI: Fowarded IPv4 and IPv6 From *lan*, MAC: XYZ To *wan* (Protocol any) Reject foward The device A has an update feature to fetch last release from github, so I try to get last update and it still was able to ... How to set firewall to connect two zones - OpenWrt Forum. I'm finally reaching a point where my setup is "good enough". The last thing I want to figure out is how to cross firewall zones.

Another key aspect involves, here's overview of the setup: There's also a rule for vpnlan that forces everything into vpn - I managed to set it up with help of the forum as well in this post. config rule option in 'vpnlan' option lookup '102' config route option interface 'vpn' option target '0 ... Furthermore, is there a place where I can see my firewall logs?. Hello, I am using openwrt latest (24.10.2) on a raspberry pi 4b. I have firewall rule allowing incoming traffic to my webserver (only from my reverse proxy server).

Is there a log file where I can see all the firewall allowing and blocking events? How to block several outgoing ports in one firewall rule?. I'm trying to add a firewall rule to block several outgoing ports, I'm only able to add two ports in the source port field - any more ports and a warning comes up. Managing firewall rules manually - OpenWrt Forum.

I have a device running the last version of OpenWRT, which seem to work so far. However, I would like to manage the firewall rules using an nftables script I would upload over sftp on the device. My preliminary tests seem to work, and are replacing the firewall rules accordingly.