Firewall configuration Adding firewall policies
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Figure 5: Adding a NAT/Route policy
Action

Select how you want the firewall to respond when the policy matches a connection

attempt.

ACCEPT Accept the connection. If you select ACCEPT, you can also configure NAT
and Authentication for the policy.
DENY Deny the connection. The only other policy option that you can configure is
Log Traffic, to log the connections denied by this policy.
ENCRYPT Make this policy an IPSec VPN policy. If you select ENCRYPT, you can
select an AutoIKE Key or Manual Key VPN tunnel for the policy and
configure other IPSec settings. You cannot add authentication to an
ENCRYPT policy. ENCRYPT is not available in Transparent mode. See
“Configuring encrypt policies” on page 193.