Creating a new firewall rule or firewall group

You can create a new rule from scratch or by duplicating an existing rule and editing it. You can also create a group for a set of rules, a connection-aware group, or add predefined rules. Create new rules and groups on the Firewall Rules tab in the Firewall Rules policy.

To create a firewall rule:

  1. On the Firewall Rules tab in the Firewall Rules policy, click Add and then click New Rule.
  2. The Firewall Rule dialog box appears.

  3. Select the appropriate settings. For details, see: Firewall Rule dialog box.
  4. Click OK.
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    You can also create rules by adding predefined rules and rule groups to the policy. Click Add, and then Predefined Rules. In the Select Predefined Rules dialog box, select the group or individual rules you want to add, and click OK.

To create a new rule group:

  1. On the Firewall Rules tab in the Firewall Rules policy, click Add and then click New Group.
  2. The Firewall Rule Group dialog box appears.

  3. In the Name field, type a name for this group.
  4. Click OK to add the group.
  5. You can now create new rules within this group, or move existing rules into it from the firewall rule list.

To create a connection-aware group:

  1. On the Firewall Rules tab in the Firewall Rules policy, click Add and then click New Connection Aware Group.
  2. The New Connection Aware Group dialog box appears.

  3. Type a name for this group in the Name field.
  4. Under Connection type, select the type of traffic or connection (LAN, Dial-Up, Wireless, VPN) to which to apply the rules in this group.
  5. Click Edit List to add an address (or set of addresses) that the computer must have for this rule group to apply.
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    When configuring Connection Aware Groups, specify a DHCP server MAC address only for DHCP servers on the same subnet as the client. Identify remote DHCP servers only by their IP address.

  7. Select the Server Information options to further define the group. Select one or more lists, and click the corresponding Edit List to define each list.
  8. Click OK.

You can now create new rules within this group, or move existing rules into it from the firewall rule list.

To add predefined rules:

  1. On the Firewall Rules tab in the Firewall Rules policy, click Add and then click Predefined Rules.
  2. The Select Predefined Rules dialog box appears.

  3. Select one or more groups or rules within a group.
  4. Click OK to add the selected groups and rules.

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