To add a rule:
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- Go to Profiles and select a profile.
The General settings page opens.
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- From the left pane, select Firewall.
The Firewall page opens.
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- Select the profile that you want to edit or to which you want to add a new rule.
In the Firewall rules table, you can see the rules that have been created for the selected firewall profile.
Note: The order of the rules has no effect, but block rules override allow rules.
- Do one of the following:
- To add a new rule, select Add rule at the top of the table.
- To edit an existing rule, select the row to edit it.
Note: We do not recommend that you delete rules, but rather deactivate those that you feel are not needed.
- Enter values for the rule or edit the existing ones in the following fields:
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- Give the new rule a name and add a description
In the Action and direction column, select either to allow or block incoming or outgoing traffic.
In the Attributes column, do the following:
- Select a protocol
- Enter the local and remote IP addresses
Note: You can leave these empty unless you want to allow a specific IP address or range
- Enter the local port number to allow traffic to come through this specific port
- Enter the remote port number to allow traffic to come from specific port
- Enter the service name.
- Enter the application path
- Select the interface type
Note: By selecting Automatic selection in the Select F-Secure firewall profile drop-down menu, you can add one or more rules to assign a specific firewall profile when you, for example, need to take your laptop out of the office network range.
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