Hi,
I am behind a well configured router. I need to use firewall only to block certain outgoing connections. What settings would I use to only enable firewall function for the outgoing connections from my computer?
thanks much for your help.
What kind of connections are you trying to block? Stuff from an application, certain ports?
Yes, stuff from an application is the initial goal. But while I was on it, I wanted to find out if there was a way to turn off the inspection of incoming packets (I have a very full featured router installed), and only inspect the outgoing ones.
thx
The SPI engine is either ON or OFF. I don’t believe that it can be tuned to only inspect in a single direction.
Blocking a single application is relatively easily achieved. Open CFP and click
FIREWALL → ADVANCED → NETWORK SECURITY POLICY → APPLICATION RULES.
From here, you can define a rule for that application that blocks by protocol, direction, destination and/or port, according to how you define that rule.
For outbound connections, the application rules are parsed before the nertwork rules. For inbound connections,the reverse is true.
Hope this helps,
Ewen 
edit : minor typos