Creating rules for the firewall/networking layer
Since a Gateway Access rule is already present, the next rules are listed as follows:
- DHCP
- Dynamic Routing
- Noise Suppression
These three are interconnected in that all of them are related to traffic addressed to the gateways. Because of this, these three sections are located higher up in the policy than the Stealth Rule section.
The Noise Suppression section and rules are there to drop and avoid logging useless traffic, specifically, the broadcast traffic from connected networks and the general broadcast. However, DHCP relies on it, so the relevant section must be positioned higher. Additionally, we are supposed to define objects representing the broadcast addresses for connected networks and general broadcasts.
Defining hosts for broadcast addresses
To handle broadcast traffic, we have to create a number of dummy host objects with broadcast addresses. In SmartConsole, launch the COMMAND LINE window from...
