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Default Policies Configuration

This sub-section is used to describe the firewall policy regarding establishment of connections. Connection establishment is described in terms of clients who initiate connections and servers who receive those connection requests. Policies defined here are default policies. If no rule in the following "Rules" sub-section applies to a particular connection request then the default policy defined here is applied.

The table summarizes all the default policies currently configured. The factory settings defaults all policies to "REJECT", so that only connections explicitly allowed in the "Rules" sub-section are allowed.

Warning: Order is important: the firewall processes the policy rules from top to bottom and uses the first applicable policy that it finds. For example, in the following policy file, the policy for (lan, lan) connections would be ACCEPT as specified in the first entry even though the third entry in the file specifies REJECT.

If there are many rules, you can filter them by client and server zones. Choose the desired "client" and "Server" zones available in the pull-down lists and click the icon. The special "*" zone is simply a wildcard matching all zones.

Reminder: the "fw" zone designates the firewall itself.

For each of the defined policies, click on the corresponding icon to modify that policy or to definitely remove it. To add a new default policy, click the icon.

Do not forget to click on the Apply button at the end of the page once all default policies are set in order to make your changes effective.