Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Creating the Datacenter firewall rules

To open the rule creation dialog box, we need to click on Add by navigating to the Datacenter | Firewall menu. For the first rule, we are going to allow the Proxmox GUI on port 8006, as shown in the following screenshot:

 

The dialog box for rules is identical for all three zones, so it is important to know the details of the option items in this dialog box. The following table summarizes the purpose of the text and drop-down list available in the rules dialog box:

Items	Functions
Direction	This is a drop-down list used to select the direction of the traffic for the rule, and it is a required ...