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" …

Jun 22, 2020 · Hi, I successfully installed and configured openvpn on my openwrt 19.07.3. My problem now is that I cannot connect to the company openvpn server for instance because of …

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 …

Nov 28, 2023 · Trying to get to grips with segregating smart TV and firestick through VLAN. Objective is 1) completely segregate thiese from other devices and router, 2) stop them …

Apr 16, 2025 · I'm new to Open-WRT and new to firewall configuration in any kind of linux. My router is running OpenWrt 24.10.0 r28427-6df0e3d02a. I just configured wifi with what I …

May 9, 2020 · Now your firewall rule can also be managed from the graphical user interface LuCI. The iptables syntax / firewall.user is meant for exotic firewall stuff, like post-routing rules and …

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 …

Jun 17, 2022 · Once again digging into the settings of my router OpenWRT, I noticed that the firewall service is in a stopped state /etc/init.d/firewall enabled stopped The fact is that when I …

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 …

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 …