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 …
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: Multiple Source and Destination zones - OpenWrt Forum
Aug 3, 2023 · Firewall: Multiple Source and Destination zones Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration 2.3k views 8 1 link 7 users read 4 min
Managing firewall rules manually - OpenWrt Forum
Feb 10, 2025 · Hello great team. 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 …
Firewall - Port Forwards: Modem - Router - OpenWrt Forum
Oct 23, 2023 · Firewall - Port Forwards: Modem - Router - NAS for Home Assistant Installing and Using OpenWrt Turrikan October 23, 2023, 6:51pm 1
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 traffic rule with destination IP subnets - OpenWrt Forum
Oct 9, 2024 · Hi, i would like to block access from one zone to all private 10.0.0.0/24 subnets. I realized that i can put a destination ip 10.1.0.0/16 in the rule and it works as expected (subnet not reachable). …
Lets talk about firewall4 (default nftables firewall)
May 25, 2025 · In contrast, service firewall restart does delete the fw4 table and then recreates it, and service firewall reload seems to check if anything has changed in /etc/config/firewall and reloads as …
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 …
Firewall4 / NFtables Tips and Tricks - OpenWrt Forum
Aug 29, 2022 · How can I translate that to fw4 /etc/config/firewall? So far my attempt looked like below however tcpdump shows a lot of connections to different addresses.