Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

Network Protection system settings
System configuration
System settings 7
The Network Protection system settings are used to configure a default policy for handling traffic that
comes in to the appliance system from the network and exceptions to the default policy.
Note: These settings are configured on the Appliances tab of the Configuration top-level menu.
Network Protection Rules
Settings for handling incoming traffic to protect the appliance system
Enable network protection — When selected, the settings configured in the following for network
protection are enabled
Input policy — List for selecting the action taken on incoming traffic
Incoming traffic can either be dropped or accepted.
Allow Ping requests — When selected, the appliance accepts and answers Ping requests.
Exceptions from default policy — List of network devices that send traffic to the appliance system
Traffic from these devices is not handled according to the configured input policy. When this policy
drops incoming traffic, traffic sent from the devices listed here is accepted and vice versa.
The following table describes the list entries. For information on maintaining a list of this type, see
Inline lists.
Table 7-10 Network devices list
Option Definition
Device Name of a network device that sends traffic to the appliance system
* or no entry means all devices are covered.
Protocol Protocol used for sending traffic
Source IP address or address range of the network device or devices that send traffic to the
appliance system
Destination port Port on the appliance that is the destination of network traffic
Comment Plain-text comment on the network device
Port Forwarding system settings
The Port Forwarding system settings are used for configuring rules to let the appliance direct web traffic
sent from a particular port on a particular host to another host and port.
Note: These settings are configured on the Appliances tab of the Configuration top-level menu.
Port Forwarding
Settings for configuring port forwarding rules
Port forwarding rules — List of port forwarding rules
The following table describes the list entries. For information on maintaining a list of this type, see
Inline lists.
Table 7-11 Elements of an entry in the Port Forwarding Rules list
Option Definition
Source Host IP address of the host that is the source of web traffic in a port forwarding rule
Source Port Port used on this host for outgoing web traffic
Destination Host IP address of the host that web traffic from the source host should be directed to
Destination Port Port used on this host for web traffic coming in from the source host and port
Comment Plain-text comment on the port forwarding rule
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