I do like the way that ubiquiti implmements zone based firewall and wonder if there’s a way to emulate this in the SSH/CLI? I attached how mine looks in my cloud gateway ultra [Screenshot from 2026-09-26 23-37-09]

Is there a reason you want to move from the Unifi gateway? I use one with my alta switches and alta aps and it works great.

Just to clarify, You are looking for the GUI to give you a grid rather than just make the rules?

Having asked about it before myself, perhaps the OP is wanting to create their own zones and define what is in it?

I would welcome that ability for multiple zones.

I can see wanting the gird as its a quick way to see what is or isn’t allowed. At the moment you could get mostly there by creating a Firewall group, call it whatever zone name you want, then add the subnets that belong to that zone. Then just make the rules you want by calling out the Firewall grou…

I don’t have a route10 however I know it runs a modified version of openwrt. The vanilla openwrt or a modified version like RutOS (teltonika’s version of openwrt ) does have a firewall section that covers global zone settings (inter/ intra etc) looks something like that [image] I guess this fir…

well their facebook rep said they have it but it’s not exposed to the user. I’d like to bring this request more forward so more people can suggest that.

There’s at least 1 feature request in place for it we can vote on [image] FR: Support for adding firewall zones Feature Requests I would like to be able to create new zones and assign VLAN interfaces to zones other than LAN or WAN.

Best way to emulate unifi's zone based firewall

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wonderer626 October 2, 2026, 4:49pm 11

There’s at least 1 feature request in place for it we can vote on