Recommended firewall settings - Network and Wireless Configuration ...
Oct 25, 2017 · 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 …
Firewall rules (forwarding) - OpenWrt Forum
Dec 16, 2024 · 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 …
Firewall: functional difference between port forwards and traffic rules
Feb 16, 2024 · 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 …
Raspberry Pi 4 vs OpenWrt One for routing, firewall, NAS, and offsite ...
Jun 18, 2025 · Hello helpful forum folks, I'm looking for server hardware to run OpenWRT and provide dedicated routing, firewall, network-attached storage access, and offsite backup (of NAS, via rclone). …
Firewall is running? - Installing and Using OpenWrt - OpenWrt Forum
Oct 11, 2024 · The firewall is part of the kernel, it's not an independent process, and there is nothing running while the firewall is active. What the firewall service does is to load the rules from the config …
Is the firewall broken when an invalid rule is included?
Jun 26, 2025 · The firewall is a rather complex piece of software, it's very easy to get that wrong. The defaults using fw4 (the abstracted zone based rule sets) are secure and work for the vast majority of …
What is Masquerading and do I need to use it in the LAN -> WAN …
Jul 23, 2021 · Masquerading Masquerading is the technology that translate/masquerade your private LAN IPs to the one WAN IP address your router has and handles the return packets respectively. So …
Firewall zones forwards and rules - OpenWrt Forum
Nov 14, 2018 · Hi all, I just installed OpenWRT, but I have difficulties understanding the relation and meaning of forwardings, firewall chains and rules. I noticed that there are forwardings that define …
Firewall / block WAN connections to specific device
Apr 6, 2025 · 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 …
Firewall: unexpected allowed port - OpenWrt Forum
Apr 14, 2025 · I have 24.10.0 installed on an ER-X with a couple of VLANs for various networks. Some of the networks are isolated (like IOT), but since the ER-X is the DNS server for all the networks I …