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 …
New Firewall Rules Not Applying To Established/Related Traffic
Mar 26, 2025 · I'm using now v22.03.0 on Archer C6 V2 US. However, I remember this issue also happened with v19. I want to create some rules to restrict some traffic at specific times of day. …
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 …
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 …
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: 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 / 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 blocking ipv6 - OpenWrt Forum
Apr 5, 2025 · I have 2 issues. If I disable firewall completely via /etc/init.d/firewall stop then I am able to access my ipv6 entities outside network and If I restart firewall, it doesn't work to …
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 …
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 …