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FortiWiFi and FortiAP Configuration Guide

Protection Profiles Entry

Protection Profiles Entry

When you enable Advanced Wireless Features, WIDS Profiles is renamed to Protection Profiles and contains additional tabs that enable you to manage L3 Firewall Profiles.

WIDS Profiles

After you click Protection Profiles, the WIDS Profiles tab loads by default. From there you can create or edit WIDS profiles to configure the type of security threats you want to monitor.

L3 Firewall Profile

In the L3 Firewall Profiles tab, you can create or edit L3 Firewall Profiles to configure the WiFi bridge access control list.

Click Create new to create a L3 Firewall profile.

From there, you can create IPv4 or IPv6 rule lists to allow or deny traffic that matches the configured policy.

These fields correspond to the following CLI settings:

L3 Firewall Profiles > New/Edit L3 Firewall Profile

config wireless-controller access-control-list

Name

  edit <name>

Comment

    set comment {string}

IPv4 rule list > New/Edit IPv4 Rule

    config layer3-ipv4-rules

ID

      edit <rule-id>

Comment

        set comment {string}

Source address

        set srcaddr {user}

Source port

        set srcport {integer}

Destination address

        set dstaddr {user}

Destination port

        set dstport {integer}

IANA protocol number

        set protocol {integer}

Action

        set action [allow|deny]

IPv6 rule list > New/Edit IPv6 Rule

    config layer3-ipv6-rules

ID

      edit <rule-id>

Comment

        set comment {string}

Source address

        set srcaddr {user}

Source port

        set srcport {integer}

Destination address

        set dstaddr {user}

Destination port

        set dstport {integer}

IANA protocol number

        set protocol {integer}

Action

        set action [allow|deny]

Protection Profiles Entry

When you enable Advanced Wireless Features, WIDS Profiles is renamed to Protection Profiles and contains additional tabs that enable you to manage L3 Firewall Profiles.

WIDS Profiles

After you click Protection Profiles, the WIDS Profiles tab loads by default. From there you can create or edit WIDS profiles to configure the type of security threats you want to monitor.

L3 Firewall Profile

In the L3 Firewall Profiles tab, you can create or edit L3 Firewall Profiles to configure the WiFi bridge access control list.

Click Create new to create a L3 Firewall profile.

From there, you can create IPv4 or IPv6 rule lists to allow or deny traffic that matches the configured policy.

These fields correspond to the following CLI settings:

L3 Firewall Profiles > New/Edit L3 Firewall Profile

config wireless-controller access-control-list

Name

  edit <name>

Comment

    set comment {string}

IPv4 rule list > New/Edit IPv4 Rule

    config layer3-ipv4-rules

ID

      edit <rule-id>

Comment

        set comment {string}

Source address

        set srcaddr {user}

Source port

        set srcport {integer}

Destination address

        set dstaddr {user}

Destination port

        set dstport {integer}

IANA protocol number

        set protocol {integer}

Action

        set action [allow|deny]

IPv6 rule list > New/Edit IPv6 Rule

    config layer3-ipv6-rules

ID

      edit <rule-id>

Comment

        set comment {string}

Source address

        set srcaddr {user}

Source port

        set srcport {integer}

Destination address

        set dstaddr {user}

Destination port

        set dstport {integer}

IANA protocol number

        set protocol {integer}

Action

        set action [allow|deny]