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Firewall Basics: Sent vs. Received Values

I got an interesting question through the comments section on my blog:

What does “Bytes sent/ Bytes received” mean in ACC screen of Palo Alto firewall? I mean, if 500MB of packets are sent from a source device and go through a firewall, get permitted to reach the destination, then the firewall should not see the packets as “sent” or “received”; the firewall just “processes” the packets regardless of the direction, I suppose.

Quite a good questions. Let’s have a look:

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