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How Firewall rules work

Published on Sep 13, 2026

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Each rule contains a set of conditions that the network traffic must meet. The associated parameters of that rule allow or block the network traffic.

This diagram shows how network packet filtering works.

This diagram explains how each network packet is processed.

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