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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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*, …
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 …
Raspberry Pi 4 vs OpenWrt One for routing, firewall, NAS, and …
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 …
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 …
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 …