Remote Access Router User's Guide

DI-1162 Remote Access Router

Configuration and Management 69

The parameters of a filter are described below:

•

Name – this is a 12 character (maximum), alphanumeric, user-

defined name, used to identify the filter.

•

Direction – this defines the direction of the frame relative to the

Interface

parameter below.

•

State – this is used to choose the routing decision applied to the

frame. The three decisions are described:

forward –

this allows the routing of the frame, if it has met the

criteria of the corresponding filter.

drop

–

this drops (doesn’t allow routing for) a specific frame

that has met the criteria of the corresponding filter.

disable

–

this does not apply the protocol independent filter.

•

Interface – this applies the filter to a specific interface, either

LAN or one of the three WANs.

•

Offset – this defines the reference byte for the

Length

parameter

(described below). The Offset is the number of bytes (octets) from

the beginning of the first byte of the frame header, immediately