Securing Your Computer with the Mobile VPN Firewall

To create a rule, click New. Use the four tabs in the Firewall Rule Entry dialog box to define the traffic you want to control. Each tab is described below.

General tab

On the General tab, you define the basic properties of your rule.

Rule Name

Type a descriptive name for this rule. For example, you might create a rule called “Web surfing” that includes traffic on TCP ports 80 (HTTP), 8080 (alternate HTTP), and 443 (HTTPS).

State

To make a rule inactive, select Disabled. New rules are enabled by default.

Direction

To apply the rule to traffic that comes from your computer, select outgoing.

To apply the rule to traffic that is sent to your computer, select incoming.

To apply the rule to all traffic, select bidirectional.

Assign rule to

Select the check boxes adjacent to the network types that this rule applies to.

Protocol

Use this drop-down list to select the type of network traffic you want to control.

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