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Add, edit or delete Address objects or groups

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This article applies only to On-Premise Appliance, not to our Cloud products.

You can add Address objects and Address object groups to reuse across your Smoothwall Firewall rules, Smoothwall access rules, Port forwards rules, Source NAT & LLB rules or Geoblocking exceptions.

You can manage Address objects and groups from the Address object manager page, or while setting up rules and policies.

  Tip

You can create child Address objects within parent Address object groups.

Default Address objects

You can use the default Address objects in policies. 

  • When you use these in Address object groups, they’ll show in italics.
  • You can’t edit or delete them.

Default Address objects:

  • Internal networks: Includes all individual interfaces not reached through an external interface, or VPNs and other static routes reached through an external interface.

      Note

    Smoothwall uses Supernetting to consolidate subsequent subnets with the same host and subnet mask into one Address object. When you use this Address object in another Address object group, you’ll see the new value in italics.

  • Any DHCP/PPPoE DNS servers: Includes all automatically detected DNS servers using the Smoothwall’s configuration.
  • If you have set up a PPPoE interface, you’ll also see these items, where X is the name of the PPPoE interface:
    • Remote IP address of X
    • DNS server(s) on PPPoE connection X

Add an Address object

  1. Go to Network > Settings > Address object manager.
  2. Select Add new address object.
  3. Enter a Name.
  4. To add Selected objects:
    • Select the Address Names field to select previously added objects.
    • Enter an IP address, IP range or subnet into the Address Names field, then select Add. 

      Note

    You can remove an object from the list by selecting the X icon.

  5. (Optional) To save the selected objects as a new group:
    1. Select the Options checkbox.
    2. Enter a Group name.
    3. Select Add.
  6. (Optional) Enter a Comment. 
  7. Select Save changes.

Edit an Address object

  1. Go to Network > Settings > Address object manager.
  2. Hover over the Address object and select Edit.
  3. Edit the Name, Selected objects or Comment as needed. You can also save the selected objects as a new group using the checkbox.
  4. Select Save changes.

Delete an Address object

To delete a single Address object or group:

  1. Hover over the name.
  2. Select Delete.
  3. Select Delete again.

To delete multiple Address objects or groups:

  1. Select the checkbox:
    • Next to the Name column to select all objects.
    • Next to each name.
  2. Select Delete.