networking basics
Help articles tagged “networking basics”.
Create a custom firewall rule for a port, address or inbound traffic
In the Rules tab, click New rule… and set the direction, action, protocol, program, ports and addresses. The result is an ordinary Windows Firewall rule that stays whether NetSecWall runs or not.
Find endpoints shared by several apps with the Relations graph
The Relations tab draws your apps and the servers they talk to as a graph. Endpoints used by two or more apps turn orange, and connections to threat-feed addresses turn red.
Live network monitoring: reading the Live tab
The Live tab lists every program with a network connection open, with its connections, rates and remote hosts underneath. Expand a row to see what that program is talking to right now.
Reading a connection: ports, states, CDNs and countries
Each connection row gives you a port, a socket state, a host name, a network owner and a country. Together they tell a browser fetching a font apart from something worth a closer look.