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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: connection tracking question
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 00:35:41 +0200
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ops sorry, error... !:-)

Pablo Neira wrote:

>> Specifically, I would like to know when the ESTABLISHED state is set 
>> in the kernel.
>
>
> mmm, i suppose that you are talking about a tcp connection, 


not necessarily, you could be talking also about conntrack state, yes 
please have a look at:

http://lxr.linux.no/source/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c#L738

function resolve_normal_ct, see the ct_info var. Don't mix tcp states 
with conntrack states, they are independent.

regards,
Pablo