Here's how to use the firewall on your server to manage incoming and outgoing connections

🤔 What use is a firewall? 🤔

A firewall can help you to protect your server from bot attacks, setting them up securely for use with your proxies and more!

💡 How to use it 💡

Navigate to witherpanel.com.
Click on the Networking TAB.


You can now see where we can add firewall rules.



Click on the Create Rule button you can see above; this will bring up the options.



Here you can enter what you would like to do with this firewall rule.

Rule Type:

ACCEPT = allow the IP address(s) to talk with your server
DROP = block the IP address(s) from talking to your server

Example:

👍 Some useful examples of IP address formatting 👍

Block all incoming connections:

0.0.0.0/0 with DROP.

Block all connections from the IP 123.45.67.89:

123.45.67.89 with DROP

Block all connections from all IPs in 123.45.67.0-123.45.67.255:

123.45.67.0/24 with DROP

Updated on: 24/02/2023