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From: Jim Laurino <nfcan.x.jimlaur@dfgh.net>
Subject: Re: icmp messages to spoofed address acceptedby -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:41:42 -0500
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On 2004.03.18 17:35, Jim Laurino  - nfcan.x.jimlaur@dfgh. 
net wrote:
> I added a rule with this matching pattern to
> the iptables firewall on my machine.
> 
> -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED
> 
> It is matching icmp packets about an
> unreachable destination that are sent here
> because someone is spoofing my IP address.
> 
> I do not see in /proc/net/ip_conntrack
> any entry that I think should match these packets.
> 
> I have come here to try to find out if this
> match is the expected behavior of this rule,
> or if this match is a misuse of the conntrack
> module by me, or if this is a bug in connection tracking.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Laurino
> 
>