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 …
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 …
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 …
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 21, 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 there a place where I can see my firewall logs?
Aug 3, 2025 · Hello, I am using openwrt latest (24.10.2) on a raspberry pi 4b. I have firewall rule allowing incoming traffic to my webserver (only from my reverse proxy server). Is there a log …
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 …
Firewall: Multiple Source and Destination zones - OpenWrt Forum
Aug 3, 2023 · have to create 2 rule each for LAN (Main) and Guest Network even if they do they same thing foreach zone. It would be nice to combine them into one Multiple Destination For …
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 …