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How policies are applied

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When you add a VLAN or CIDR block to a subinterface, Trellix Intrusion Prevention System treats the corresponding hosts as internal and builds a "protection domain" around them. All inbound traffic to and outbound traffic from those hosts is scanned using the policy associated with the sub-interface.