RV042 Firewall & Port Forwarding

[PackerIntl]

I am installing a RV042 on a client SBS network.  In the configuration, I notice that there is a place for port forwarding where I guess I could open the ports for smtp, http, https, ...

But there are also access rules in the firewall section which seem to be the same except that you can schedule them.

Question is, do I need to configure both, or if only one of them, which one?

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Bob Showalter, Packer International

[jasbryan · Accepted solution]

Bob,

You only need to configure port forwarding, unless you want to specify a source and destination that the packet is allowed or denied; then you would use both.

hope this helps,

Jasbryan

[PackerIntl]

Thanks for the reply.  Just as a mental not for the future, would doing the firewall alone specifying the WAN that is connected and referencing any source on that WAN do the same thing; or are they something different?