Connections, "every packet" rules, and a packet tracer
- Connections: the kernel's tracked connections, read and closed over ctnetlink (internal/conntrack, raw netlink like the drop log), with their NAT and TCP state; closing one makes the rules check its next packet again (GET /connections, POST /connections/close; hc connections; Traffic → Connections). - Rules can check every packet (every_packet, --every-packet): before established connections are accepted, so a drop or reject also stops connections already open. They can't accept. - A packet tracer (internal/trace): a table of its own, inet housecarl-trace, marks the packets a filter picks, `nft monitor trace` reports every rule and policy they meet in every table, and the tracer names what accepted or dropped them, Housecarl's rules by name (POST, GET, DELETE /trace; hc trace; Traffic → Trace). One trace at a time, at most 200 packets and 20 a second; the table goes when it ends. e2e: 157 checks, among them an upload a normal block doesn't stop and an every-packet one does, and a trace naming the blocking rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **Warnings about the machine:** while `nftables.service` is enabled
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(it loads `/etc/nftables.conf` at boot, and flushes every table when
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stopped), and while the table an import came from still applies.
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- **Connections and tracing:** the connections the kernel tracks, with
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their NAT, and closing them so the rules check them again (Traffic →
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Connections, `hc connections`); a rule option, "every packet", for
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blocks that stop connections already open; and a packet tracer
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(Traffic → Trace, `hc trace`) that follows packets through every
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table's rules and names what accepted or dropped them.
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- **Hits and the log:** packet and byte counters for every rule, NAT rule,
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built-in and policy; packets logged by rules and policies, read from
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netlink log group 4171 (`hc log -f`, the Log page).
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