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From: Steven M Campbell <Netfilter@SCampbell.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: states and UDP
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:44:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4408563D.2040605@SCampbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FFBMv-0016UD-1H@alf1.lmb.internal>

T. Horsnell wrote:
> Am I right in thinking that the stateful capabilities
> of iptables (NEW/ESTABLISHED/RELATED etc) only apply to
> tcp connections? If not, how are these states defined for
> udp?
>
> iptables doesnt complain if I add a rule containing
> '-p udp -m state --state NEW'
>
> Thanks,
> Terry.
>
>   
any tracked connection can have state.   For instance, one could write a 
conneciton tracker for NFS over UDP mounts and use the state flag in 
firewall rules.  That's not a real example (to my knowledge), I'm just 
showing that the capability is there.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-03 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-03 14:34 states and UDP T. Horsnell
2006-03-03 14:44 ` Steven M Campbell [this message]
2006-03-06  1:43 ` Philip Craig

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