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      LucaTo
      last edited by

      In firewall logs I see, associated to WAN firewall rules, entries related to packet coming from LAN interface having destination lan broadcast address (in my case 192.168.1.255)
      please note: this happens even if I create a rule (in LAN) to block all ingress packet having 192.168.1.255 destination, seems that broadcast traffic from lan are see by firewall also like coming/ingress from wan.
      No trace of this in previous 2.3.3/2.3.4

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        That can only happen if those packets enter your WAN. Your WAN and LAN(s) all appear to be on the same switch/layer 2 without proper segmentation.

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          LucaTo
          last edited by

          thank for your reply
          In this case It seems impossible, the wan interface is not connected with lan switch ma directly to a vdsl modem (IPoE, DHCP, modem in bridged mode).

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            The packets have to be entering that interface somehow, and not even a bridge on the firewall could do that. Something must be sending the packets into that interface at layer 2.

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              kpa
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              Post the output of 'ifconfig' as run from Diagnostics->Command Prompt->Execute Shell Command

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                LucaTo
                last edited by

                igb0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=6400bb <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>ether a0:36:9f:::**
                        inet6 fe80::a236:9fff:fe**:%igb0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
                        inet6 2001:b07:
                :💯:10 prefixlen 72
                        inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                        status: active
                igb1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=6400bb <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>ether a0:36:9f:::**
                        inet6 fe80::a236:9fff:fe**:
                %igb1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
                        inet 192.168.3.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                        status: active
                igb2: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=6400bb <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>ether a0:36:9f:::**
                        inet6 fe80::a236:9fff:fe**:%igb2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
                        inet6 2001:b07:::400::10 prefixlen 72
                        inet 192.168.4.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.4.255
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                        status: active
                igb3: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=6400bb <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>ether a0:36:9f:::**
                        inet6 fe80::a236:9fff:fe**:
                %igb3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
                        inet 192.168.5.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.5.255
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                        status: active
                igb4: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=6400bb <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>ether a0:36:9f:::**
                        inet6 fe80::a236:9fff:fe**:%igb4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
                        inet 2.
                .
                .226 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 2.
                .
                .255
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
                        status: active
                lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
                        options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
                        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
                        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: lo
                enc0: flags=41 <up,running>metric 0 mtu 1536
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: enc
                pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33160
                        groups: pflog
                pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500
                        groups: pfsync
                        syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 defer: on
                        syncok: 1
                ovpns1: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=80000 <linkstate>inet6 fe80::a236:9fff:fe**:%ovpns1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xd
                        inet 192.168.2.1 –> 192.168.2.2  netmask 0xffffff00
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: tun openvpn
                        Opened by PID 23577
                gif0: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1480
                        options=80000 <linkstate>tunnel inet 2.
                .
                .226 --> 81.
                .
                .214
                        inet6 2001:b07:::: --> 2001:b07::::  prefixlen 128
                        inet6 fe80::a236:9fff:fe**:****%gif0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: gif</performnud,auto_linklocal></linkstate></up,pointopoint,running,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></linkstate></up,pointopoint,running,multicast></promisc></performnud,auto_linklocal></up,running></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

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                • L
                  LucaTo
                  last edited by

                  anyway, I can't explain how and why…. but there is no more trace of "strange" traffic in wan firewall log in the last 12h.

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