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Allow specific inbound traffic with rules

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Allow specific inbound traffic with rules

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to the FTP file transfer protocol if you want to secure your file transfers across your network. to create a firewall rule that goes into your network so that it's allowing traffic in So let's go to the Firewall Rules area and look at where we would do that. So anything that's going to be coming in is going to be coming across the WAN port. And since we know that the default is to deny everything, that means anything coming in our network will be default to block. Okay so that's important to know. The other thing that's important to know is that under Services, if we go to DHCP Server, remember how we had said we needed to set aside a small block of IP addresses for servers. Well we are not using anything from 192.168.0.1, which is the pfSense router, all the way up to 10 which means two through nine are available there. So that's an important thing. I have a Mac on the network configured to handle SSH connections at 192.168.0.2. So just know that that is set up and that is where that…

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