Rules for User-Defined Netlet Applications

Rules for user-defined applications are not associated with a particular application. These rules simply enable the redirection of TCP/IP traffic to the proper destination server and port using an encrypted connection between the client and the i-Planet gateway. You define these rules in section "User Defined Netlet Applications" in Figure 1-1.

Simply giving a rule for a user-defined application the name of one of the predefined Netlet applications or using one of the reserved ports will not cause the rule to be treated as a predefined application. Alternatively, disabling a rule for a predefined application will not affect any user-defined rules that happen to share the same name or ports. The only way to disable a rule for a user-defined application is to remove it.

For example, if a user-defined rule directs certain traffic to the Telnet port of a specific host (myTelnet^30001^myServer^23), this rule will operate independently of the rule for the predefined Netlet application for Telnet. It does not depend on whether or not the predefined Netlet application for Telnet is enabled on the Netlet Administration page of the i-Planet Administration Console that is shown in Figure 1-1.

Netlet rules cannot contain any port number higher than 64000.