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Home » Technical » Mikrotik » Enable Mikrotik firewall rule using comment field
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Enable Mikrotik firewall rule using comment field

by William Rendell|Published November 4, 2019

The below can be used in a schedule or script to control rules, just change “enable” to “disable” to disable the rule and “BlockKids” is the comment so change to suit your needs.

/ip firewall filter enable [find comment=”BlockKids”];

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