Advanced settings
The Advanced settings page: marking new rules and blocklist entries for review, the data rate unit, and extra local network ranges.
The Advanced page holds three settings that are easy to leave alone: a mark for rules that appeared without you, the unit traffic rates are shown in, and extra ranges that count as your local network. The page is disabled while Protect these settings is on and this session is locked. See Security.
The section is titled “Rules”.
Mark new rules for review: off by default. When it is on, any rule that appears from outside the Rules window (added by an app, a script or someone else) is marked. The page explains the point: “Marked rules are listed under Rules › Unapproved until you look at them, so a rule added by an app, a script or someone else does not go unnoticed.” See Review and unapproved rules and Rules in the main window.
Clear the mark when I select a rule: on by default, and disabled while the marking switch is off. Selecting a marked rule in the Rules window clears its mark, so “Unapproved” is a queue of rules you have not seen yet. The mark stays if rule editing is not allowed.
Mark new blocklist entries for review: off by default. When it is on, entries a blocklist refresh adds are marked, so you can see what changed. Find them with the Unapproved filter in a list’s entries, or with outboundctl blocklists new, and approve them one at a time or together. See Blocklists and rule groups.
Data rates
Section titled “Data rates”The section is titled “Data Rates”.
Show rates in: “Bytes per second (KB/s)” or “Bits per second (kbit/s)”. Bytes per second is the default. The choice applies wherever Outbound shows a rate: the traffic chart, the Network Monitor, Overview, the menu bar and the Assistant. See Traffic chart and The menu bar item.
Local network
Section titled “Local network”The section is titled “Local Network”.
The addresses Outbound counts as your local network, besides the standard private ranges. This list adds more, one CIDR range per row, for example 10.20.0.0/16. Each row shows the range and a Remove button whose help is “Remove “ plus the range. Add range takes a new CIDR, with the prompt “CIDR, e.g. 10.20.0.0/16”, and an Add button. Add is disabled while the field is empty. The footer reads: “Addresses in these ranges count as your local network, besides the standard private ranges. Adding a range to a Local network allow rule loosens protection, so it asks for approval.”
An ill-formed range is refused with “Invalid local-network range ‘VALUE’. Enter an IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR, such as 192.168.0.0/16.” The text you typed stays in the field until the save succeeds. The list starts empty. What counts as local, and the standard ranges, are described in Local network traffic.