04-02-2015 12:20 PM
Yes. It means that traffic will never hit the rule you just added because there is a rule above it that matches (at least) all of the criteria of the one you just created.
04-02-2015 02:38 PM
so the rule needs to be moved above the rule that it shadows to be affective if there are any differences in the rule to start with
04-03-2015 03:37 AM
jprovine wrote:
so the rule needs to be moved above the rule that it shadows to be affective if there are any differences in the rule to start with
Correct, firewall rules are processed from the top of the list down. And they stop processing on the FIRST match of criteria.
Thus you need your most specific rules to appear in the rule base before the least specific rules.
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