Fortinet FortiGate-800 Addresses, Adding addresses, 197, To add an address Go to Firewall Address

Firewall configuration Addresses

Addresses

All policies require source and destination addresses. To add addresses to a policy, you must first add addresses to the address list for the interfaces, zones, or VLAN subinterfaces of the policy.

You can add, edit, and delete all firewall addresses as required. You can also organize related addresses into address groups to simplify policy creation.

A firewall address consists of an IP address and a netmask. This information can represent:

•The address of a subnet (for example, for a class C subnet, IP address: 192.168.20.0 and Netmask: 255.255.255.0).

•A single IP address (for example, IP Address: 192.168.20.1 and

Netmask: 255.255.255.255)

•All possible IP addresses (represented by IP Address: 0.0.0.0 and Netmask: 0.0.0.0)

Note: IP address: 0.0.0.0 and Netmask: 255.255.255.255 is not a valid firewall address.

This section describes:

•Adding addresses

•Editing addresses

•Deleting addresses

•Organizing addresses into address groups

Adding addresses

To add an address

1Go to Firewall > Address.

2Select the interface, VLAN subinterface, or zone that you want to add the address to.

3Select New to add a new address.

4Enter an Address Name to identify the address.

The name can contain numbers (0-9), uppercase and lowercase letters (A-Z, a-z), and the special characters - and _. Spaces and other special characters are not allowed.

5Enter the IP Address. The IP address can be:

•The IP address of a single computer (for example, 192.45.46.45).

•The IP address of a subnetwork (for example, 192.168.1.0 for a class C subnet).

•0.0.0.0 to represent all possible IP addresses

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