Hi Johnpa7,

Awesome! Glad it’s working for you now


…and yes, the ‘Advanced’ button related to the direction selection; so you can specify the interfaces used in the rule, at a granular level.

I too have struggled with the FW rules on the Draytek routers, it really can get quite complicated, and I still find myself tripping up from time to time, but testing and reading through the manual 800 times normally gets me to my goal.

The fact that you can use the ‘None’ setting in a ‘Filter Rules’, for WCF, DNS, etc to override the ‘Default Rule’ settings is quite confusing, but it actually makes sense when you understand it.
Initially you see ‘None’ as “no condition” being applied but it actually means any condition after this rule, like the ‘Default Rule’ (which is processed after the ‘Filter Rules’) will be ignored, because you have specified ‘None’ at the ‘Filter Rule’ stage.