Services¶

The Services menu contains items which control services provided by daemons running on the firewall.

See also

Auto Config Backup:

Configures the automatic configuration backup service which optionally uploads encrypted configuration backups for secure off-site backups.

See Automatic Configuration Backup Service.

Captive portal:

Controls the Captive Portal service which directs users to a web page for authentication before permitting Internet access.

See Captive Portal.

DHCP relay:

Configures the DHCP relay service which proxies DHCP requests from one network segment to another.

See DHCPv4 & DHCPv6 Relay.

DHCP server:

Configures the DHCP service which provides automatic IP address configuration for clients.

See DHCPv4 Server.

DHCPv6 Relay:

Configures the DHCP relay service for IPv6 which proxies DHCPv6 requests from one network segment to another.

See DHCPv4 & DHCPv6 Relay.

DHCPv6 Server:

Configures the DHCP service for IPv6 which provides automatic IPv6 address configuration for clients.

See DHCPv6 Server.

DNS Forwarder:

Configures the built-in caching DNS forwarder.

See DNS Forwarder.

DNS Resolver:

Configures the built-in caching DNS resolver.

See DNS Resolver.

Dynamic DNS:

Configures Dynamic DNS services (“dyndns”) which updates a remote name server when the WAN IP address of this firewall changes.

See Dynamic DNS.

IGMP Proxy:

Configures the Interior Group Management Protocol proxy for passing multicast traffic between interfaces.

See IGMP Proxy.

NTP:

Configures the Network Time Protocol server daemon.

See NTPD.

PPPoE Server:

Configures the PPPoE server which accepts and authenticates connections from PPPoE clients on local networks.

See PPPoE Server.

Router Advertisement:

Configures IPv6 Router Advertisement behavior which provides IPv6 routing and address configuration for clients.

See IPv6 Router Advertisements.

SNMP:

Configures the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) daemon to allow network-based collection of statistics from this firewall.

See SNMP.

UPnP IGD & PCP:

Configures the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP IGD) & Port Control Protocol (PCP) service which automatically configures NAT and firewall rules for devices which support the UPnP IGD or PCP standards. This menu entry only appears when the firewall contains more than one assigned interface.

See UPnP IGD & PCP.

Wake on LAN:

Configures Wake on LAN entries which remotely wake up local client devices.

See Wake on LAN.