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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@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ The action is `accept`, `drop`, `reject` (an ICMP error, or with
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`--reject-with tcp-reset` a TCP reset) or `log` (log and go on).
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`--log` logs the packets of any rule ([operations.md](operations.md#the-log)).
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`--disabled` (or `hc rule disable ID`) keeps a rule without using it.
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`--every-packet` ("every packet" in the web UI) checks a drop or reject
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against every packet, before established connections are accepted, so it
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also stops connections already open, not just new ones; it can't accept
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([operations.md](operations.md#connections)).
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Examples:
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