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Thepacketiscomparedtoeachruleinorderuntilitmatchesaruleoritwascompared

withalloftherules.Whenamatchismade,thepacket‐to‐rulecomparisonends.

The packetisnotcomparedtosubsequentrulesintheorderedlist.Ifitwascompared

toallru

leswithoutamatch,thedef

aultruleactionisapplied.

To add and edit rulesets and rules for network access

1Inthepolicyeditor,selectNetworkAccess,andclickthelinkinthetablecolumn

thatappliestotheaccesssettingtoedit.

TheZoneandAccessTypeinformationjustbelowtheRulesetNametextbox

showsthenameofthezoneandwhethertheac

cesssettingappliestohostnetwork

accessortothenetworkaccessforACEinstances(guestaccess).

2Usetheruleseteditortochangetheorderofrulesintheset,editrules,andspecify

whetherthehostorguestisallowedtouseDNS,DHCP,orICMP.

Byde

faul

t,DNS,DHCP,andICMPareincludedinthenetworkaccesssetupfor

bothhostandinstanceaccess.VMwarerecommendsthatyoukeepDHCPand

DNSselectedbecausetheyareimportantforzonedetection.

WhetherthefollowingsettingsapplytothehostortotheACEinstance(guest

access)de

pendsonwhetheryouareeditingahostnetworkaccessrulesetora

guestnetworkaccessruleset:

 DNS–AllowstheguestorhosttouseaDNSservertoresolveIPaddresses.

SelectthisoptioniftheDNSserverisnotincludedinanyothernetworkaccess

settingforthishostorACEinstance.

 DHCP–AllowsthehostorguesttoobtainitsIPaddressfromaDHCPserver.

SelectthisoptioniftheDHCPserverisnotincludedinanyothernetwork

accesssettingforthehostorACEinstance.

 ICMP–Enablesyoutousethepingcommand.Forguests,pingenablesyou

tochecknetworkconnectivitytoandfromtheACEinstance.Forhosts,it

enablesyoutochecknetworkconnectivitywithotherhostsinthenetwork

andwiththeACEinstance.

3 (Optional)Toaddoreditarule,dooneofthefoll

owing:

 Tochangeaspecificrule’ssettings,clicktherowforthatruleinthetableinthe

ruleseteditorandclickEdit.

 Toaddarule,clickAdd.

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