Firewall rule direction question

[nils_92]

Hi all,

Being a long time pfsense user I’ve now switched over to opnsense and I’m linking it however one thing I do not understand is the rule direction can anyone make an example when I would use direction OUT ? I believe this feature didn’t exist in Pfsense and everything there was treated as in correct?

Thanks


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[franco]

Hi there and welcome,

Best thread on the subject is this: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=16829.0

In pfSense interface-based rules only have "in" direction. In floating you can choose "in" or "out" as fas as I know. We added the direction to the interface-based rules not too long ago as it can be useful depending on how you want to manage your network.


Cheers,
Franco