Nortel Contivity firewall reboot issue

[Anders Ingeborn <anders.ingeborn () home se>]

Hi,
we noticed that the stateful inspection firewall that comes 
with Nortel Contivity, does not seem to be properly 
activated during startup.

For example, we configured a firewall rule to filter out 
connections to the built-in web server on the 
administrative interface. But during a reboot of the 
system, it was still quite possible to connect to this web 
server...

This is true for a period of approximately 30 seconds during 
which the interface and web server is up but the firewall 
engine is not.

What's almost even more annoying is that the connection 
isn't being dropped even after the firewall engine started. 
It means that just as long as someone make the login during 
the initial period, then they are allowed to stay connected 
as long as they like.

Can this be avoided by any trivial configuration setting 
that we just overlooked?

We are using version 4.75.100.

Regards,
Anders Ingeborn

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