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From: "Loïc Minier" <lool+netfilter@via.ecp.fr>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Matching UDP broadcasts using RELATED
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:13:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040105161337.GU30323@via.ecp.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xiwu88jw8c.fsf@random-node.example.org>

yu5p97f02@sneakemail.com - Sun, Jan 04, 2004:

> For protocols which work by initiating a request using a UDP broadcast and
> expecting a reply for a specific host, is there any way to match the reply
> back to the original broadcast.
> 
> An example of something that does this is smbmount, a request is broadcast to
> the localnet with a port set to the netbios-ns port, and then smbmount expects
> a reply from a particular host to the initiating port.

 I think this should go in a conntrack module, but there's always the
 possibility for you to write such rules manually with the "recent"
 module.  See ``iptables -m recent --help''.

   Regards,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-05 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-04  2:14 Matching UDP broadcasts using RELATED yu5p97f02-O/bDAPVd7B0N+BqQ9rBEUg
2004-01-05 16:13 ` Loïc Minier [this message]
2004-01-05 16:16 ` Antony Stone

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