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Chapter 7 Traﬃc Policy

7.2 How traﬃc rules work

The traﬃc policy consists of rules ordered by their priority. When the rules are applied, they

are processed from the top downwards and the ﬁrst rule is applied that meets connection or

packet parameters — i.e. order of the rules in the list is key. The order of the rules can be

changed with the two arrow buttons on the right side of the window.

An explicit rule denying all traﬃc is shown at the end of the list. This rule cannot be edited or

removed. If there is no rule to allow particular network traﬃc, then the “catch all” deny rule

will discard the packet.

Note:

1. Unless any other traﬃc rules are deﬁned (by hand or using the wizard), all traﬃc is blocked

by a special rule which is set as default.

2. To control user connections to WWW or FTP servers and ﬁlter contents, use the special

tools available in WinRoute for these purposes (see chapter 12) rather than traﬃc rules.

7.3 Deﬁnition of Custom Traﬃc Rules

The traﬃc rules are displayed in the form of a table, where each rule is represented by a row

and rule properties (name, conditions, actions — for details see below) are described in the

columns. Left-click in a selected ﬁeld of the table (or right-click a rule and choose the Edit...

option in the context menu) to open a dialog where the selected item can be edited.

To deﬁne new rules press the Add button. Move the new rule within the list using the arrow

buttons.

Name

Name of the rule. It should be brief and unique. More detailed information can be included in

the Description entry.

Matching ﬁelds next to names can be either ticked to activate or unticked to disable. If a par-

ticular ﬁeld is empty, WinRoute will ignore the rule. This means that you need not remove and

later redeﬁne these rules when troubleshooting a rule.

Figure 7.8 Traﬃc rule — name, color and rule description

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