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 …
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 …
How to update IPs in firewall and PBR from IP list URL
Sep 10, 2025 · Is there a script that can retrieve and update the list in PBR and Firewall.
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 / 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 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 …
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 …
Raspberry Pi 4 vs OpenWrt One for routing, firewall, NAS, and offsite ...
Jun 18, 2025 · 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). Internet access will be …
Firewall configuration questions - Installing and Using OpenWrt ...
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 believe should be …
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 …