Creating Rules

Lets quickly go over how to create rules!

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On the "Manage IPs" page, click the cogwheel icon on the IP that you're wanting to manage.

Sometimes IPs will have filters that are already present, but they may not appear automatically. Or the filters have been changed by another user and you don't have the most recent version on your Shield.

To verify that the IP's filters are the most up-to-date, be sure to click the "Sync" button at the top-right each time!

This guide will cover the following:

• Batch Games Rules for FiveM Citys

• Adding Singular Rules

• Creating Profiles of Preset Rules (coming soon...)

Game Rules for FiveM City

• On the top right beside "Search Rules", click the "Add New..." drop-down menu, then click "Create Game Filters".

Create Game Filters

Once inside the new page to create game filters, you will see many settings. DO NOT PANIC!

• We have made the default settings that appear to be the best standard filters for DDoS attacks.

  • If you need to make changes to the default ports, just do that here for each (i.e. you're using a different set of port(s) than 30120 &/or 40120). Once you have made the changes, scroll down and click "Create".

  • If you're using default ports simply scroll to the base of the page and click "Create".

Create

Unless instructed by our team, do not modify the default rules. Only adjust the ports for your server—nothing else.

When you "Create" filters, all players will be dropped from your server and must all reconnect again.

If you delete filters, players are not dropped, this is only when you create new filters and apply them.

This is so the firewall is able to filter the traffic according to all rules that have been applied, not just the past rules that were presently active prior to the newly applied rules.

• Once you click "Create", the filters will automatically be applied.

Adding Singular Rules

After you have set up and applied the base filters above, or if you would like to create rules one at a time, go to "Create Network Filters".

You will have the following settings:

Protocol

• TCP

(Transmission Control Protocol) – A connection-based protocol that ensures data is sent and received correctly. It’s reliable but slightly slower due to error checking

OR

• UDP

(User Datagram Protocol) – A connectionless protocol that sends data quickly without checking if it arrives. It’s faster but less reliable, games and streaming services primarily use this protocol.

Rules

Rule 2 options will change according to which Rule 1 you select

Rule 1 options:

• FiveM Game Filters

• Network Filters

Rule 2 options IF - Network Filters

• FTP – Used for file transfers; commonly uses port 21 (control) and port 20 (data transfer).

• Drop - silently discards traffic, preventing responses to blocked connections.

• Pass – allows traffic to pass through a specific port. Useful for opening single ports.

Port

Any port you need.

Standard for FiveM:

• 30120 (default server port)

• 40120 (txAdmin port)

IP Address

Inputting an IP in this section means that these rules only apply to traffic from that specific IP, so leave this blank!

This section is for rules to be applied to one specific IP, so if you are not wanting one particular IP managed by the rule, then leave this blank.

If you are wanting players to fly in to your city, then you need 30120 and 40120 to be open to all IPs, if you input an IP to this section no one else will be able to connect except the IP that you put in.

Once you have input the above information, click "Add".

Add button

Remember that when you create and apply/add any new rules/filters, then all players will be dropped if you server is currently online.

Removing rules does not drop players.

Creating Profiles of Preset Rules

Now that you have learned about creating singular rules and creating a batch of filters, lets step up our game by creating a profile of preset rules.

Why create a profile? It's like when you are playing a game, and you lost the boss fight, or got so far without a check point, so you load your previous saved game slot.

This is similar, you create different presets of filters so that when a certain attack occurs, you can go back and load your pre-made save that you can deploy instantly to filter the attack.

More coming soon....