1. Types
2. appliance
3. techpreview
4. networking
5. firewall
6. addr
7. inbound

## appliance techpreview networking firewall addr inbound: firewall address rule

`firewall_address_rule` structure Structure that defines a single address-based firewall rule.

### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

{
"address": "string",
"interface_name": "string",
"policy": "deny",
"prefix": 1
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:FirewallAddressRule xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/techpreview/networking/firewall/addr/inbound" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<address>string</address>
<prefix>1</prefix>
<policy>deny</policy>
<interface_name>string</interface_name>
</ns0:FirewallAddressRule>

#### Attributes:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
Required
address | string | IPv4 or IPv6 address.
prefix | long | CIDR prefix used to mask address. For example, an IPv4 prefix of 24 ignores the low-order 8 bits of address.
policy | string | The allow or deny policy of this rule. Defines firewall rule policies Value is one of: deny: Deny packet with correpsonding address. allow: Allow packet with corresponding address.
interface_name | string | The interface to which this rule applies. An empty string or "*" indicates that the rule applies to all interfaces.