Version 17 - Firewall Rule Grouping Processing Order

Hey Brian Olson 

The firewall rules should still be processed in order, per the individual firewall group.

Are you experiencing different behavior on your appliance?

Regards,

FloSupport | Community Support Engineer

Hi Flo,

that leads to the next question, what is/are the advantages of firewall groups?

Ian

Hi Flo,

Thanks for your reply. So I am assuming that the Groups themselves are processed in order as well ? I just stared looking at this feature so I do not have anything to report as far as behavior I just wanted a understanding of the rule processing utilizing this feature.

rfcat_vk: I would presume that it would help with organizing large rule sets similar to the way Cisco groups its ACLS per ingress interface however Sophos adds the benefit of grouping rules into what ever category you wish.

Thanks,

Brian