Recommended firewall settings - Network and Wireless …
Oct 25, 2017 · If you pull up Network>Firewall what are the recommended settings for "General" and "Zones?" Upon reading google hits, many are showing a "Lan -> wan" setting of "reject" …
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 …
Sonos with VLANs in 2025 (complete how-to) - OpenWrt Forum
Jan 4, 2025 · A lot has changed with Sonos and their recent (controversial) software and networking updates, making most previous Sonos VLAN discussion obsolete in 2025. The …
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 …
Using iptables in v24.10.1 - OpenWrt Forum
Jun 24, 2025 · Only manually defined iptables code firewall rules would be relevant here. Anything running on the level of the UCI/LuCI firewall configuration is already compliant and compatible …
Optimizing OpenWRT Routers for Online Gaming
Sep 30, 2024 · For routers with 880MHz CPU, should I leave packet steering on or off? Is creating VLANs better for gaming only when you want to separate Wi-Fi traffic? Should I open …
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 …
PBR problems no service gateways - OpenWrt Forum
Aug 8, 2025 · Hi, I have openwrt 23.05 on an access point, thsi access point has a single lan port that plugs into a firewall (not openwrt). Internet traffci works fine, but now im tryign t force …
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 …
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*, …