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Network
The Network page opens on What's happening: what each device is doing on the internet now, in words — "Living room TV · Watching Netflix · ↓ 5.8 Mb/s". What panel did not recognise comes first, in amber. The other tabs are Devices, The line and Open to the network.
What's happening
A row is a device doing one thing. Every connection shows the same, one connection a row: from, to, probably what, now, and since when. The search narrows both.
A row opens a drawer with the guess and what it rests on, both ends, who owns the far one ("Datacamp, the Netherlands"), and how much it carried. Yes, call it this gives that far end a name, on every device.
Only what crosses the edge of your home is listed: a device going out, something coming in through a port forward, and the panel's own.
The names come from the answers the router's own DNS gave the devices, kept in memory for a day. Who owns an address comes from a public list of every network on the internet, fetched each week.
Blocking one device from one thing
A connection's drawer offers Block it for that device: it is kept from that far end until someone lets it through, in the drawer or on the Firewall page, which lists every block. A far end with a name is blocked by its name, so a new address for it is blocked too.
Devices
One row a device, by name, busiest first: what it moves now, its last hour, and its connections. A device's drawer has its addresses, its hardware address, what it probably is, and its hour in full. There:
- Belongs to gives the device to a person, for the household page.
- Internet pauses it.
- Priority: High, Normal or Low, or Boost for 2 hours.
What a device probably is — "Android phone or tablet · Samsung" — is a guess from what the device said when it asked for an address, and the maker of its network card. Nothing is sent to the device to find out. Many phones use a private address per network, which has no maker.
Sharing the line
A router shares the internet fairly: a device has the whole line while nobody else wants it, and an equal share the moment others do — per device first, then per connection, so a download with fifty connections does not crowd out a phone with one.
For that it needs to know the line's speed. Measure the line downloads and uploads for ten seconds each from Cloudflare's speed test, or you type the speeds in. panel then shapes to 90% of them, so the queue forms in the router and not in your modem.
A device's priority: High goes first, up to half the line; Low gets what is left, and always a little.
Open to the network
What this machine accepts, read from the firewall's rules in force, a row per side:
The LAN (eth1) panel 443, 80, SSH 22, DHCP 67, DNS 53, ping
The internet (eth0) pingPort 80 only sends a browser on to the panel's own port.
On a machine that is not a router
It keeps the connections, by address, for the network it is on. There are no devices to pause or share the line between.