Selecting Services and creating Application Gateways
TCP/UDP Ports determine which services can be accessed on Host computers and also identify different users or tasks operating from the same remote computer. As they are very specific their use as filters is very efficient for controlling access to services. They are the primary means of creating Application gateways. The LuciGate Firewall user is able to select from several well known services such as Telnet, FTP, DNS, SMTP, Finger and HTTP or to provide a list of values which define his own local services or external remote services.