Question about bidirectional firewall rule listed in Help>Firewall Info

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LaneMatt
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Question about bidirectional firewall rule listed in Help>Firewall Info

If this is a bidirectional rule wouldn't the source and the destination be the same? Instead of the destination being any? Or am I misunderstanding something?

Your network(s), 209.206.48.0/20, 216.157.128.0/20, 158.115.128.0/19Any 443TCPbidirectionalMV cloud archive; Meraki cloud communication, customer-hosted Scanning Push API server: api.serviceprovider.net:443 Access points, Cameras

 

Thanks for your help!

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PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

It's not described well, is it.

 

The cameras only need to be able to connect out.  They will establish an outbound TCP connection and reply traffic has to be allowed in.

Every Internet-facing firewall uses stateful rules for this, so simply allowing the traffic out implies that want to allow the reply traffic to come back in.

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PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

It's not described well, is it.

 

The cameras only need to be able to connect out.  They will establish an outbound TCP connection and reply traffic has to be allowed in.

Every Internet-facing firewall uses stateful rules for this, so simply allowing the traffic out implies that want to allow the reply traffic to come back in.

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