Firewall

The Firewall category of the Global Options dialog allows you to configure one or more named firewalls. SecureFX supports connections through generic proxy firewalls as well as SOCKS versions 4 and 5 firewall types.

Firewalls

This window lists the firewalls that you have configured. These firewalls can be applied to specific FTP, SFTP, FTPS, and SCP sessions using the applicable protocol category of the Session Options dialog.

Name

Displays the unique identifying name for the firewall. This name will be used in the Session Options dialog to specify a specific firewall for a given session
A session is a set of options that are assigned to a connection to a remote machine in SecureFX. These settings and options are saved under a session name and allow the user to have different preferences for different hosts. .

Type

Displays the type of firewall to be used.

Hostname

Displays the hostname or IP address
Every site that is reachable on the Internet must have a valid IP, or Internet Protocol,address. An IP address should be entered as four numbers separated by period (.) characters (for example: 198.105.232.1). used by the firewall.

Port

Displays the port used by the firewall.

To create a new firewall, click on the Add... button to open a blank Firewall Properties dialog. To modify an existing firewall, select that firewall and click on the Edit... button to open that firewall's Firewall Properties dialog. To remove an existing firewall, select that firewall and click on the Delete button.