About Policy Aliases

XYLITOL

Hello.
I have a question about aliases and policies.
I found a predefined alias called Any-Trusted and Trust. (The VLAN alias was Trust)
If I allow Any-Trusted in the policy, will the alias Trust also be allowed?
What do the pre-defined Any-Trusted and other aliases such as Any-XXXXX mean?

Bruce_Briggs

Review this:

About Aliases
https://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/help-center/en-US/Content/en-US/Fireware/policies/aliases_about_c.html

james.carson

"Any Trusted' is just an alias for any interface that was put in the trusted Zone.

When you create an interface, you're given an option to identify what zone the traffic is in.

-Trusted - Usually used for internal "Trusted" networks
-Optional - Often used for Guest or DMZ type networks.
-External - Used for External interfaces. Allows the interface to take part in External interface specific actions like SD-WAN/Multi-WAN, and applies NAT rules to traffic by default if they exist.
-Custom - This zone does not have any pre-defined aliases associated with it.

Any-Trusted is just an alias for any interface that has "Trusted" selected as the interface type.
Any-Optional is just an alias for any interface that has "Optional" selected as the interface type.
Any-External is just an alias for any interface that has "External" selected as the interface type.