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Forbidden/allowed
If you have a list of IP numbers you specifically want to ban, then you should check "IP's in list are forbidden". If you have a list of IP numbers that should be allowed, banning all others, "IP's in list are allowed" should be checked.
If "IP's in list are allowed" is checked, and the list of IP numbers is empty, no connections will be banned. The list of IP numbers MUST contain at least one number; otherwise the IP banning system is disabled.
IP Numbers
Depending on what you've set in Forbidden/allowed, the IP numbers in this list will either be banned or allowed. You can use wildcards in the list, but only at the end of the IP number. Entering 192.168.0.* will ban or allow all IP numbers that start with "192.168.0". Entering 192.* will ban or allow all IP numbers that start with "192".
Remember to add the dot at the end, because entering "19*" will ban or allow all IP numbers starting with "19", this includes "19", "190", "191" and so on. The string "19.*" would instead ban or allow IP numbers starting with "19.".
Action
Action determines what should happen when an IP is banned.
| Send denied 401
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| This will send a HTTP response saying that the connection was denied.
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| Close Connection
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| This will simply close the connection to the caller, sending no response at all.
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| Send file
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| This will send a file in response to the connection. You must specify your own file. The file could for instance explain why the connection was banned. The file can either be HTML or plain text.
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Filename
This is the file that will be sent if a connection is banned and Action is set to "Send file".