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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Traffic Monitoring
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    • KOMK
      KOM
      last edited by

      I was just looking at this today and I noticed this massive outlier in my data.  Apparently on Nov 10-11 we used 172 GB in on LAN where normally a heavy day for us is ~6 GB, with no corresponding interface totals from WAN or DMZ…  ???
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        MindlessMavis
        last edited by

        windows 10 uses your private network as a source of updates, so you don't need to download them 10x

        do you have loads of devices that correspond to an update on that day?

        just a random guess. It could be anything.

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        • KOMK
          KOM
          last edited by

          Inter-LAN traffic doesn't hit the firewall at all, so that's not it.

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          • MikeV7896M
            MikeV7896
            last edited by

            If you have Squid installed on your pfSense box, it may have cached the update files, then passed them to other computers (non-Windows 10, or Windows 10 that don't have the option to receive updates from others on the network) that were requesting them as well. Microsoft released updates that week on Tuesday, so if you have updates set to install on Friday-Saturday, then that might explain it.

            The S in IOT stands for Security

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