How to create general system rules in the firewall

There are certain parameters you can define when adding or configuring a rule:

Rule name: Enter a descriptive name for the rule.
Action: Use the drop-down menu if you want to allow or deny connections established by the PC through the ports, IPs, protocols or zones you select.
Direction: Specify if you want the rule to affect inbound connections, outbound connections, or both.
Zone: It lets you apply the rule to the connections that the PC establishes on the local network (trusted zone), on the Internet (public network) or both.
Protocol: You can specify to which protocol the rule will apply (TCP, UDP, IP or ICMP). If you select ICMP, in addition to indicating the direction of the communication to which the rule will apply (inbound, outbound or both), you must also select the corresponding ICMP services. To do this just select the corresponding checkboxes.
Ports:
- Local: This lets you specify the ports on your computer through which you will allow or deny communications.
- Remote: This lets you specify the ports on other network computers through which you will allow or deny communications.

In both cases, you can select one of the listed ports or choose any other one. If you want to select a specific port, select the option Customized and indicate the corresponding ports or ranges. To add more than one port, separate them with commas. Ranges should be separated by a hyphen (For example: 6700, 6800, 6900-7000).

IP addresses: If you only want the program to connect through a specific IP, or range of IPs, you can indicate this in the corresponding box.
MAC addresses: This lets you apply the rule to communications established with a PC whose network adapter has a specific MAC address.

Note: You can specify more than one IP address or MAC address, separating them with commas. You can also specify a range of IP addresses, separated with a hyphen. For example, 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254, 172.1.1.1 in the case of IP addresses, or 00:AF:C8:05:E0:FF,08:06:AC:15:E2:FF in the case of MAC addresses.

How to create general system rules in the firewall

In addition to creating specific rules for the programs installed, the firewall lets you create rules applicable to all the PC communications. These rules will have priority over the rules that you have established for the programs installed.

The general system rules let you open or close certain communication ports, allow or deny communications with computers with a certain IP address, etc.

You can create a general system rule, or configure an existing one, by following these instructions:

This window contains the list of rules you have created and it lets you establish the priority with which the rules will be applied. You can order them using the Up and Down buttons. The rule in the first place in the list will have priority over the rule in second place, and so on.

If you want to recover the original settings, click Restore.