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| <section id="initial-setup-of-external-firewalls-loadbalancer"> |
| <title>Initial Setup of External Firewalls and Load Balancers</title> |
| <para>When the first VM is created for a new account, &PRODUCT; programs the external firewall and load balancer to work with the VM. The following objects are created on the firewall:</para> |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem><para>A new logical interface to connect to the account's private VLAN. The interface IP is always the first IP of the account's private subnet (e.g. 10.1.1.1). </para></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>A source NAT rule that forwards all outgoing traffic from the account's private VLAN to the public Internet, using the account's public IP address as the source address</para></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>A firewall filter counter that measures the number of bytes of outgoing traffic for the account</para></listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| <para>The following objects are created on the load balancer:</para> |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem><para>A new VLAN that matches the account's provisioned Zone VLAN</para></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>A self IP for the VLAN. This is always the second IP of the account's private subnet (e.g. 10.1.1.2).</para></listitem> |
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