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From: Christian Seberino <seberino@spawar.navy.mil>
To: Julian Gomez <kluivert@tm.net.my>
Cc: netfilter@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: how is this stuff getting thru default deny iptables firewall?....
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:34:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020710093418.A27977@spawar.navy.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207101903030.1723-100000@dodobirdy.nestac.com>; from kluivert@tm.net.my on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 07:03:55PM +0800

> ipchains is a simple packet filter. it looks at per packet header
> information and passes that through the ruleset for analysis and whether
> it gets forwarded or not.
> 
> there is no 'keeping of header info' unlike iptables which is stateful.

Thanks for the help.  I think this must be right.  However, can you
explain the mechanism that allows a PC on the private LAN to
do DNS, HTTP, etc. thru an SSH-only ipchains firewall???

The *must* be *some* mechanism to allow return packets of an 
existing TCP connection to bypass firewall!

CS


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-10 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-09 19:43 how is this stuff getting thru default deny iptables firewall? j davis
2002-07-09 21:41 ` Christian Seberino
2002-07-09 21:43 ` Christian Seberino
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207101903030.1723-100000@dodobirdy.nestac.com>
2002-07-10 16:34     ` Christian Seberino [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-22 21:43 James T. Moore
2002-06-23  7:13 ` Christian Seberino
2002-06-22 17:30 Christian Seberino
2002-06-22 17:38 ` Antony Stone
2002-06-23  7:13   ` Christian Seberino
2002-06-23  7:53     ` Patrick Schaaf
2002-06-27  7:21       ` Christian Seberino
2002-06-27  7:37         ` Patrick Schaaf
2002-07-09 19:08           ` Christian Seberino
2002-06-23  8:07     ` Antony Stone
2002-06-27  7:14       ` Christian Seberino
2002-06-27  7:28         ` Patrick Schaaf

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