Today I was checking the NAT connections on a simple setup I use.
The setup is fairly simple. A PPPoE connection to the internet, a local-bridge interface to the inside network (192.168.x.x). NAT is in between:
/ip firewall nat> print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
0 chain=srcnat action=masquerade to-addresses=0.0.0.0 out-interface=pppoe
Today, I found this:
/ip firewall connection> print
Flags: S - seen reply, A - assured
# PROTOCOL SRC-ADDRESS DST-ADDRESS TCP-STATE TIMEOUT
0 tcp 178.x.x.x:59551 84.x.x.x:443 established 9h8m39s
1 tcp 188.x.x.x:39789 84.x.x.x:443 established 9h9m22s
2 tcp 188.x.x.x:46318 84.x.x.x:443 established 9h15m38s
(...)
The SRC and DST are both not local to my setup. What is going on here? Am I somehow in the middle of connections that do not belong to my local setup?