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From: "John A. Sullivan III" <john.sullivan@nexusmgmt.com>
To: ste@smxy.org
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: incoming interface confusion question
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:18:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087849139.17067.25.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40D736F6.50405@smxy.org>

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 15:28, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> 
> > Are there any cases where iptables can be confused about what interface 
> > a packet came in on? Can a packet arriving on interface A ever be 
> > reported as arriving on interface B?
> > 
> > I had an incident this weekend, and am trying to be certain that the 
> > packets came in the interface my system said it did. It's a Red Hat 9 
> > system, running their stock 2.4.20-8 kernel.
> 
> Please, can anyone answer this for me? I'm trying to prove or disprove a 
> theory that would explain an apparent intrusion incident over the 
> weekend. It's very important that I know the definitive answer to this. 
> Thanks.
> 
> 	-ste
I have never experienced it but I'm sure there are others more
experienced than I on this list - John
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-21 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-21 17:45 incoming interface confusion question Shaun T. Erickson
2004-06-21 19:28 ` Shaun T. Erickson
2004-06-21 20:18   ` John A. Sullivan III [this message]
2004-06-21 21:13     ` incoming interface confusion question [LONG] Shaun T. Erickson
2004-06-21 22:28       ` incoming interface confusion question Antony Stone
2004-06-21 23:07         ` Shaun T. Erickson
2004-06-22  0:13           ` [SOLVED] " Shaun T. Erickson
2004-06-21 22:33       ` incoming interface confusion question [LONG] John A. Sullivan III
2004-06-22  6:37   ` incoming interface confusion question Jozsef Kadlecsik
2004-06-21 19:36 ` Cedric Blancher
2004-06-21 20:34   ` Ranjeet Shetye
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-22 10:56 aksingh
2004-06-22 12:52 ` Shaun T. Erickson

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