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<section id="egress-firewall-rule">
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<title>Creating Egress Firewall Rules in an Advanced Zone</title>
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<note>
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<para>The egress firewall rules are supported only on virtual routers.</para>
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</note>
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<para/>
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<para>The egress traffic originates from a private network to a public network, such as the
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Internet. By default, the egress traffic is blocked, so no outgoing traffic is allowed from a
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guest network to the Internet. However, you can control the egress traffic in an Advanced zone
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by creating egress firewall rules. When an egress firewall rule is applied, the traffic specific
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to the rule is allowed and the remaining traffic is blocked. When all the firewall rules are
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removed the default policy, Block, is applied.</para>
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<para>Consider the following scenarios to apply egress firewall rules:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Allow the egress traffic from specified source CIDR. The Source CIDR is part of guest
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network CIDR.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Allow the egress traffic with destination protocol TCP,UDP,ICMP, or ALL.</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>Allow the egress traffic with destination protocol and port range. The port range is
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specified for TCP, UDP or for ICMP type and code.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>To configure an egress firewall rule:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<para>Log in to the &PRODUCT; UI as an administrator or end user. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>In the left navigation, choose Network.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>In Select view, choose Guest networks, then click the Guest network you want.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>To add an egress rule, click the Egress rules tab and fill out the following fields to
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specify what type of traffic is allowed to be sent out of VM instances in this guest
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network:</para>
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<phrase>egress-firewall-rule.png: adding an egress firewall rule</phrase>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">CIDR</emphasis>: (Add by CIDR only) To send traffic only to
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the IP addresses within a particular address block, enter a CIDR or a comma-separated
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list of CIDRs. The CIDR is the base IP address of the destination. For example,
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192.168.0.0/22. To allow all CIDRs, set to 0.0.0.0/0.</para>
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</listitem>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Protocol</emphasis>: The networking protocol that VMs uses to
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send outgoing traffic. The TCP and UDP protocols are typically used for data exchange
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and end-user communications. The ICMP protocol is typically used to send error messages
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or network monitoring data.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Start Port, End Port</emphasis>: (TCP, UDP only) A range of
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listening ports that are the destination for the outgoing traffic. If you are opening a
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single port, use the same number in both fields.</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">ICMP Type, ICMP Code</emphasis>: (ICMP only) The type of
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message and error code that are sent.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<para>Click Add.</para>
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<section id="firewall-rules">
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<title>Firewall Rules</title>
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<para>By default, all incoming traffic to the public IP address is rejected by the firewall. To allow external traffic, you can open firewall ports by specifying firewall rules. You can optionally specify one or more CIDRs to filter the source IPs. This is useful when you want to allow only incoming requests from certain IP addresses.</para>
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<para>You cannot use firewall rules to open ports for an elastic IP address. When elastic IP is used, outside access is instead controlled through the use of security groups. See <xref linkend="add-security-group"/>.</para>
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<para>Firewall rules can be created using the Firewall tab in the Management Server UI. This tab is not displayed by default when &PRODUCT; is installed. To display the Firewall tab, the &PRODUCT; administrator must set the global configuration parameter firewall.rule.ui.enabled to "true."</para>
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<listitem><para>In the left navigation, choose Network.</para></listitem>
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<title>Firewall Rules</title>
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<para>By default, all incoming traffic to the public IP address is rejected by the firewall. To
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allow external traffic, you can open firewall ports by specifying firewall rules. You can
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optionally specify one or more CIDRs to filter the source IPs. This is useful when you want to
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allow only incoming requests from certain IP addresses.</para>
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<para>You cannot use firewall rules to open ports for an elastic IP address. When elastic IP is
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used, outside access is instead controlled through the use of security groups. See <xref
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linkend="add-security-group"/>.</para>
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<para>In an advanced zone, you can also create egress firewall rules by using the virtual router.
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For more information, see <xref linkend="egress-firewall-rule"/>.</para>
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<para>Firewall rules can be created using the Firewall tab in the Management Server UI. This tab
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is not displayed by default when &PRODUCT; is installed. To display the Firewall tab, the
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&PRODUCT; administrator must set the global configuration parameter firewall.rule.ui.enabled to
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"true."</para>
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<para>To create a firewall rule:</para>
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<para>Log in to the &PRODUCT; UI as an administrator or end user. </para>
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<para>In the left navigation, choose Network.</para>
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<para>Click the name of the network where you want to work with.</para>
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<para>Click View IP Addresses.</para>
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<para>Click the IP address you want to work with.</para>
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<para>Click the Configuration tab and fill in the following values.</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Protocol</emphasis>. The communication protocol in use on the
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opened port(s).</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Start Port and End Port</emphasis>. The port(s) you want to
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<section id="ip-forwarding-firewalling">
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