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From: Nick Drage <nickd@funkyjesus.org>
To: netfilter@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: sendto: Operation not permitted
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 00:58:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020531005832.K27307@funkyjesus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205301955.g4UJtIA17159@Networker.rockstone.co.uk>; from Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:55:17PM +0100

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:55:17PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Thursday 30 May 2002 3:13 pm, alex@pilosoft.com wrote:

> > > This type of ICMP message will be RELATED to an existing TCP
> > > connection, therefore it will be allowed through the firewall by the
> > > sort of rulset Claudio was using - if you recall, this was:
> >
> > Ah, I didn't know iptables are smart enough to realize that!
> 
> Yes, this is one of the beautiful things about netfilter / iptables - ICMP 
> packets are automatically recognised as being RELATED to the TCP packets 
> which they're, well, related to.

How does netfilter determine if the ICMP packet is RELATED to anything in
the state table?  Anyone suggest documentation that details this?

-- 
FunkyJesus System Administration Team



  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-30 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205301011270.31451-100000@paix.pilosoft.com>
2002-05-30 19:55 ` sendto: Operation not permitted Antony Stone
2002-05-30 23:58   ` Nick Drage [this message]
2002-05-31  1:01     ` Joe Patterson
2002-06-05 21:25       ` Nick Drage
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205300945340.31451-100000@paix.pilosoft.com>
2002-05-30 19:13 ` Antony Stone

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