McAfee 6.1 manual Creating a new firewall rule or firewall group, To create a firewall rule

McAfee® Host Intrusion Prevention 6.1 Product Guide	Firewall Policies
	Configuring the Firewall Rules policy

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Creating a new firewall rule or firewall group

You can create a new rule from scratch or by duplicating an existing rule and editing it. You can also create a group for a set of rules, a connection-aware group, or add predefined rules. Create new rules and groups on the Firewall Rules tab in the Firewall Rules policy.

To create a firewall rule:

1On the Firewall Rules tab in the Firewall Rules policy, click Add and then click New Rule. The Firewall Rule dialog box appears.

Figure 5-7 New Firewall Rule dialog box

2Select the appropriate settings.

3Click OK.

You can also create rules by adding predefined rules and rule groups to the policy. Click Add, and then Predefined Rules. In the Select Predefined Rules dialog box, select the

group or individual rules you want to add, and click OK.

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