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Firewall

About

The TR7 ASP device comes with an embedded Firewall. It is a L4 stateful Firewall developed for high performance, designed to block L1-L5 attacks without the packets reaching the L7 layer. The TR7 ASP Firewall fundamentally operates in the following ways:

  • Packet Filtering (Based on Packets)
  • Rule Based
  • Stateful

IP, Network, MAC level TCP, UDP, ICMP, UDP-Lite, AH, OSPF protocols can be allowed, blocked, routed, SNAT, and DNAT. By default, all protocols and ports are closed, and as new vServices are defined, firewall rules are automatically created to allow the operation of the relevant service.

How to Add?

To add a new Firewall Rule through the TR7 ASP web interface, follow the steps Network > Firewall > Add.

Interface

Firewall Rules Listing Screen

By following the steps "Network > Firewall" you can access the list of all Firewall Rules added to the TR7 ASP device. This screen allows adding, editing, and deleting rules.

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Firewall Rules Listing Form

- 1 (Information to be Displayed in the Table)


Select which information to display in the table listing the rules.
Selectable information that comes selected by default;

  • Order
  • Rule
  • Interface
  • Source
  • Destination Port
  • Description
  • Status
  • Route Table
  • Protocol
  • Destination IP
  • SNAT/DNAT

- 2 (Add)


Click the Add button to open a new Rule creation form.

- 3 (Delete)


Select one or more Rules and click the Delete button to delete the relevant Rule from the TR7 ASP device.

- 4 (Edit)


Select the desired Rule from the list and click the Edit button to open the editing form for the relevant Rule.

- 5 (Route Table)


Select which Route Table the rules will be listed from. If no Route Table has been added, the selection cannot be made, and the rules are listed from the DEFAULT Route Table. For detailed information about Route Tables click here.


Used to search all expressions in the table.


Used to regexp search for all expressions in the table.


Used to column based search for all expressions in the table.

- 9 (Order of Rules Operation)


The order of the added Firewall rules is set. The structure of the rules in the Firewall operates sequentially from top to bottom.

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- 10 (Page Information)


Information about the number of Rules listed and the total number of Rules is available. When Rules are selected from the left side, information about the selected Rules is also displayed here.

- 11 (Page Size)


Select how many Rules will be listed maximum in the list. Transitions between pages can be made with arrow symbols.

- 12 (Information Displayed in the Table for Auto-Generated Rules)


Select which information to display in the table listing the rules.
Selectable information that comes selected by default;

  • Rule
  • Interface
  • Source
  • Destination Port
  • Description
  • Route Table
  • Protocol
  • Destination IP
  • SNAT/DNAT

- 13 (Auto-Generated Rules)


Firewall rules are automatically added in situations like creating a vService, changes in Access settings. These rules can be checked on this screen but cannot be edited.

- 14 (Search for Auto-Generated Rules)


Used to search all expressions in the table for automatically added rules.

- 15 (Page Information for Auto-Generated Rules)


Information about the number of Rules listed and the total number of Rules is available.

- 16 (Page Size for Auto-Generated Rules)


Select how many Rules will be listed maximum in the list for automatically added rules. Transitions between pages can be made with arrow symbols.

Interface

Rule Adding Screen

By following the steps "Network > Firewall > Add" a new Firewall Rule is added to the TR7 ASP device.

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Rule Adding Form

- Status


Select whether the rule to be added will be active or inactive.

- Route Table


Select the Route Table on which the Firewall rule will be added. For detailed information about Route Tables click here.

- Interface


Select the interface on which the Firewall rule will be created.

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- Protocol


Select the protocol on which the Firewall rule will operate.

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- List of Firewall Protocols Supported by TR7

Protocol
TCP
UDP
ICMP
UDP-Lite
AH
OSPF

- Source


Select the source for which the Firewall rule will be applied.

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The Firewall rule is activated for all resources.

Firewall rule is activated according to the typed MAC addresses.

Different filtering operations can be performed by selecting Is True or Is Flase.

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Firewall rule comes into effect depending on the selected country. There are 2 different choices here other than countries.

> Blacklist IPs

IP Intelligence feature is activated and the Firewall rule is activated for requests coming from Blacklist IPs in the database.

> Local Networks

The Firewall rule is activated only for requests coming from private IP addresses such as 172.16.101.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24, 10.10.10.0/24.

The IP address can be entered manually.

- Destination IP


Selection can be made from Interface IP or VIP addresses on the selected Interface. Apart from these IP addresses, a manual IP address can also be entered by selecting Country or advanced.

- Rule


Select which rule will be applied.

- Description


An optional description can be entered for the Firewall rule to be added.

- Add


Click the Add button to add the Rule.