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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
Router and firewall - Hardware Questions and Recommendations
Mar 28, 2025 · Hello all, what device (hardware) do you recommend these days for a router and firewall (pfsense maybe?) to be able to run 1/1 GBit, if possible 2.5Gbit/and more, with a low power …
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
How to set firewall to connect two zones - OpenWrt Forum
Apr 16, 2025 · How to set firewall to connect two zones Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration Some-Dinosaur April 16, 2025, 10:07pm
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 …