D-Link DIR-615 manual Internet Sessions

Section 3 - Configuration

Internet Sessions

The Internet Sessions page displays full details of active Internet sessions through your router. An Internet session is a conversation between a program or application on a LAN-side computer and a program or application on a WAN-side computer.

Local: The IP address and, where appropriate, port number of the local application.

NAT: The port number of the LAN-side application as viewed by the WAN-side application.

Internet: The IP address and, where appropriate, port number of the application on the Internet.

Protocol: The communications protocol used for the conversation.

State: State for sessions that use the TCP protocol:

NO: None -- This entry is used as a placeholder for a future connection that may occur.

SS:SYN Sent -- One of the systems is attempting to start a connection. EST: Established -- the connection is passing data.

FW: FIN Wait -- The client system has requested that the connection be stopped.

CW: Close Wait -- The server system has requested that the connection be stopped.

TW: Time Wait -- Waiting for a short time while a connection that was in FIN Wait is fully closed.

LA: Last ACK -- Waiting for a short time while a connection that was in Close Wait is fully closed.

CL: Closed -- The connection is no longer active but the session is being tracked in case there are any retransmitted packets still pending.

Dir: The direction of initiation of the conversation:

Out - Initiated from LAN to WAN.

In - Initiated from WAN to LAN.

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