Block connection in firewall -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 02/12/16 15:39, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/12/2016 12:28 PM, Bob Goodwin 
> wrote:
>> The objective is to protect my 
>> servers which I want connected to the 
>> LAN
>> but not the internet. The firewall is 
>> in the router, openwrt, I want to
>> set up.
>
> I haven't had to play with router 
> firewalls in several years, and that 
> never included this type of thing.  
> However, if memory serves, you can 
> also block outside access at the 
> router.  Have you tried that, or are 
> you more concerned with setting up 
> several levels of protection?
>
> Also, if you do manage to get these 
> servers completely isolated, you'll 
> want to set up your own NTP server on 
> a machine with outside access to keep 
> those servers synced with the rest of 
> the world.
.

I hadn't thought of that Joe, probably 
only one of the things I didn't 
consider. With other routers it was just 
another GUI menu item, I entered the 
ip's and left it at that hoping for the 
best. Here I'm being forced to look at 
what I'm doing, not a bad thing ...

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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
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