Shared Firewall Services

This service provides rudimentary filtering of traffic by port number. For example the firewall will reject all traffic to your server unless it is on a recognised port number, for example:

The ports to be filtered will be agreed with you when your server is set-up. It is important that you consider fully which ports are required as blocking necessary ports could interfere with software services that use unusual port ranges.

The user does not have control of settings. Our support team can make occasional changes to your configuration but this should not be a regular requirement. If you require more control or sophisticated firewall settings, consider our dedicated Cisco firewall options