Wiki page firewall rules still relevant?

RouterOS General
1

Hi!

I’m no firewall guru and I’m trying to set up a basic home router.

Are these rules still relevant for RouterOS 5.19?
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Firewall/Filter#Basic_examples

Maby someone have better firewall rules for a home router?!

I’m have a RB450G

2

I glanced over them and they look fine. Did you have a problem with them?

3

Well no :slight_smile:
But the wikipage states: Applies to RouterOS: v3, v4

Firewall rules are sufficient for a home router?

Thanks!

4

Yea they are sufficient for a home router.

5

One question.

I redid my firewall rules and used http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Firewall/Filter#Basic_examples.

When pasting (from last section) into terminal

add chain=icmp protocol=icmp icmp-options=0:0 action=accept \
 	comment="echo reply"  
add chain=icmp protocol=icmp icmp-options=3:0 action=accept \
 	comment="net unreachable"  
add chain=icmp protocol=icmp icmp-options=3:1 action=accept \
 	comment="host unreachable"
add chain=icmp protocol=icmp icmp-options=3:4 action=accept \
 	comment="host unreachable fragmentation required"  
add chain=icmp protocol=icmp icmp-options=4:0 action=accept \
 	comment="allow source quench"  
add chain=icmp protocol=icmp icmp-options=8:0 action=accept \
 	comment="allow echo request"  
add chain=icmp protocol=icmp icmp-options=11:0 action=accept \
 	comment="allow time exceed"  
add chain=icmp protocol=icmp icmp-options=12:0 action=accept \ 
 	comment="allow parameter bad"  
add chain=icmp action=drop comment="deny all other types"

I get an error message from this line:
add chain=icmp protocol=icmp icmp-options=12:0 action=accept
comment=“allow parameter bad”

[admin@MikroTik] /ip firewall filter> comment=“allow parameter bad”
expected end of command (line 1 column 9)

I removed the comment and pasted it into terminal and then added comment, so no harm done.
But I’m still curious why?!

Any ideas?