Firewall Filter Rules - Beginner Help

[madeupname]

If it works for you, then yes, settings should be fine. As long as you make sure that interface list memberships are maintained properly (no, LAN on WAN interface lists aren't anything magical, it's up to device admin to maintain lists).

I wonder though why you decided to ditch default setup and go with your own?

Thank you for feedback.

I initially ditched the default setup in order to problem solve and get my internet working, turned out my ISP (Virgin Media) wouldn't hand out an IP to my DHCP client since it required the Max-DHCP-Message-Size to be 576, as someone else had figured out at this post in this thread:

dhcp client issues

I’ve hit a problem with the dhcp client when used against my cable ISP (Virgin Media). Up to and including firmware 7.2.3 it worked as always, giving an IP within a few seconds. Since 7.3.0 it just sits there saying ‘searching…’ From what I can tell it has the packet has changed such that the other end no longer likes it, and doesn’t respond (if I’m reading torch correctly, which I may not be). In 7.2.3 the output looks like this: 10:58:33 dhcp,debug,state dhcp-client on ether1 entering <se…

Also, I enjoy learning and understanding the things I use, and one good way to do so is to start from scratch I guess and build your way up, possibly with some mistakes along the way but that's why I asked here for feedback, just to make sure I haven't made any massive blunders.

Again, thank you for feedback and yes, I will keep those interface lists properly maintained. For now they just contain 4 interfaces for my 4 desktop computers in LAN, and 1 interface in the list for WAN since those are the only 5 ports I have on my Mikrotik device.

//madeupname