Recommended firewall settings - Network and Wireless …
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" …
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 …
Plex Server on Main VLAN, Streaming Devices on IoT VLAN
Jul 10, 2025 · What’s the best way to allow only Plex-related traffic from the IoT VLAN to the Plex server on the main VLAN? Should I be using custom firewall rules or traffic rules for this? Is …
Wireguard Firewall rule - OpenWrt Forum
Jul 26, 2025 · However, it looks like I need to setup additional firewall rules for vlan20 to be accessible over WG, the below rule works but would like to confirm this is the correct way?
Raspberry Pi 4 vs OpenWrt One for routing, firewall, NAS, and …
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 …
Firewall is running? - Installing and Using OpenWrt - OpenWrt …
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 …
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 …
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*, …
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 …
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 …