Why a Simple Rules blog in 2025?
You amight be thinking “Surely the new Zone Based Firewall makes all that Simple Rules stuff obsolete, right”? The answer may surprise you.
A little background…
I’m happy to admit that I’ve been a Simple Rules fanboi for the past couple of years. Towards the end of 2023 I set myself a mission to redeem the reputation of UniFi’s ‘Simple Rules’.
After years of being scorned by “the experts” as being random and buggy that proved to be an almost impossible task. Even simple advice was regularly dismissed by others with “Simple Rules are junk. Just use Advanced Rules, RFC1918 blah, blah, blah blah.” Perhaps not the exact wording but you get the idea.