Help understanding some areas of Firewall - Source & States
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Hey all. I was hoping someone could help me understand a couple items in my firewall setup. I am trying to setup one of my VLANs which serves my Home Automation. My HA needs to communicate with my Camera VLAN and my workstation VLAN. I was just wondering based on the screenshot. I have the Source set to HA net in my HA Firewall settings and the destination and ports set to ANY. I was just wondering what would be the difference if I set the Source to ANY in the HA firewall? What am I accomlishing by setting the Source to HA net?
Also it shows "States" 117/4.37 GiB. What do those two numbers represent?
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@IMV8N It is a subtle difference but HA Net allows that subnet only. Any would allow any custom routed subnet behind HA Net (which has a different IP range and its own router not using NAT). 99% of the time they are functionally identical.
117 = open states/connections (click on it)
4.37 G = bytes.