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.
next prev parent 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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