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    • EveningStarNME
      EveningStarNM
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      Can anyone explain the pfSense Traffic Graphs to me? I don't think I know what "in" and "out" mean anymore. What if I've been wrong for all of these years? Is anything real?

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      • AndyRHA
        AndyRH
        last edited by

        In and out are a matter of perspective. From the perspective of pfSense, in enters the FW and out exits the FW.
        So you might see 1Gbs in on the LAN and 1Gbs out on the WAN. Meaning you are sending 1Gbs to the internet.

        o||||o
        7100-1u

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @EveningStarNM
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          @eveningstarnm said in Traffic Graphs:

          Is anything real?

          Mmm, I've had moments like that! 😉

          But, yeah, what Andy said^

          Are you seeing something that doesn't reflect that?

          Steve

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            Patch @EveningStarNM
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            @eveningstarnm said in Traffic Graphs:

            I don't think I know what "in" and "out" mean anymore.

            I agree pfsense does not define the terms as I had expected but it seams

            • In and out are defined from the perspective of each interface separately. So each WAN, LAN, VLAN has it's own labeling for each data packet.

            • In and out are not named from the overall perspective of your network.

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              netblues @Patch
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              @patch Can it be anything else?
              If pf has 3 wans and 10 lans, what is in and what is out, if we don't go by the interface perspective?

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @netblues
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                It's always by an interface perspective. How else could it be?

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