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Public/External IP Addresses as Clients in Bandwidth Usage

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I'm concerned I set up something wrongly...  If I go to Logging & Reporting > Network Usage > Bandwidth Usage, I can of course see my local IP addresses (DHCP), but oddly also some external/public IP addresses in the "Top Clients" view. They barely cause traffic, but how are they CLIENTS in my system? [:S]

Nowhere did I set anything other than "Internal (Network)" as allowed network. I'm also unable to find the IP addresses in any logs (Firewall, Web protection...)

Firmware version: 9.314-13

Thank you for your help!


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    Thank you for your answer, Bob. That seems plausible. But in that case, my understanding of what's going on must be incomplete.

    I thought that in a network that default drops all incoming traffic, there would be no clients apart from the ones inside the authorized network (internal), since all incoming traffic would be "answering" requests from clients inside, and therefore be "server". Isn't that what conntrack is for?
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    Thank you for your answer, Bob. That seems plausible. But in that case, my understanding of what's going on must be incomplete.

    I thought that in a network that default drops all incoming traffic, there would be no clients apart from the ones inside the authorized network (internal), since all incoming traffic would be "answering" requests from clients inside, and therefore be "server". Isn't that what conntrack is for?
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