@lightingman117 said in [solved, I am dumb] Is there a bug with networks alias usage & FW rules?:
You're referring to my reject any any rule?
No there is nothing wrong with a reject on a local interface - I use them myself, this can cut down on a retrans, and faster notification that its not going to work in a browser or app, etc...
If your looking at your rules page, I don't think it updates states column at any specific time - you need to actually reload the page I believe.
But yeah if your seeing 0/0 in the rules page, and your not seeing any hits there, then that rule for whatever reason is not being evaluated.. If the rule was used to create a state you would see that in the X/Y where X his how many active states, and the Y is how much traffic.
0/0 means it has not been evaluated, if you refresh the page and still seeing 0/0 and your traffic is working - something else let it pass, be it an existing state, a rule on floating maybe? Or your rule order where for some reason that rule didn't trigger be it source or destination IP/port or protocol on the rule tcp/udp/icmp etc..