From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "tirexx" Subject: -m state ESTABLISHED, NEW etc... Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:27:34 +0300 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org Message-ID: <004401c207e6$249c22c0$3401000a@ryanchenko> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.samba.org Hi all TCP connection flow by this scenario Can someone explain me where pass borders of state ESTABLISHED, NEW. 1-> SYN 2<- SYN ACK 3-> ACK connected .... 4-> ACK 5<- ACK .... 6-> FIN 7<- ACK 8<- FIN 9-> ACK closed I think so: 1,2,3 NEW 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 ESTABLISHED 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 RELATED i`m wrong? with this rules outgoing connect work incomming connect not work this demonstrate 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 = ESTABLISHED iptables -A FORWARD -o eth_external -i eth_internal -p tcp -d x.x.x.x --dport x -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth_external -o eth_internal -p tcp -s x.x.x.x --sport x -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT