Windows Security Log Event ID 5156

5156: The Windows Filtering Platform has allowed a connection

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This event documents each time WFP allows a program to connect to another process (on the same or a remote computer) on a TCP or UDP port.

The above example is of WFP allowing the DNS Server service to connect to the DNS client on the same computer.

Application Information:

• Process ID:  process ID specified when the executable started as logged in 4688
• Application Name: the program executable on this computer's side of the packet transmission

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Description Fields in 5156

Application Information:

•  Process ID:  %1
•  Application Name: %2

Network Information:

•  Direction:  %3
•  Source Address:  %4
•  Source Port:  %5
•  Destination Address: %6
•  Destination Port:  %7
•  Protocol:  %8

Filter Information:

•  Filter Run-Time ID: %9
•  Layer Name:  %10
•  Layer Run-Time ID: %11

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