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Manage Columns
By choosing this option you can select which columns will be displayed in the Con-
nections window (see chapter 3.2).
Color Settings
Clicking on the Colors button displays the color settings dialog to define colors for each
connection:
Figure 17.9 Connection colors settings
For each item either a color or the Default option can be chosen. Default colors are set
in the operating system (the common setting for default colors is black font and white
background).
Font Color
• Active connections — connections with currently active data traffic
• Inactive connections — TCP connections which have been closed but 2 minutes
after they were killed they are still kept active — to avoid repeated packet mis-
handling)
Background Color
• Local connections — connections where an IP address of the host with WinRoute
is either source or destination
• Inbound connections — connections from the Internet to the local network (al-
lowed by firewall)
• Outbound connections — connections from the local network to the Internet