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Protocol: TCP

Direction: Egress

Action: Block

The firewall rules are processed in a set order- from top to bottom. So rule placement is important. For

example with the following rules, all traffic coming in over the Network Interface is blocked except when

it comes from two nominated IP addresses (SysAdmin and Tony):

To allow all incoming traffic on all

interfaces from the SysAdmin:

To allow all incoming

traffic from Tony:

To block all incoming traffic

from the Network

Interface:

Interface

Any

Network Interface

Port Range

Any

Source IP

IP address of SysAdmin

IP address of Tony

Any

Destination IP

Any

Protocol

TCP

Direction

Ingress

Action

Block

However if the Rule Order above was to be changed so the “Block Everyone Else” rule was second on

the list then the traffic coming in over the Network Interface from Tony would be blocked.

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