From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Paddie O'Brien <paddieobrien@gmail.com>
Cc: "Gáspár Lajos" <swifty@freemail.hu>, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: conntrack -E problem
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:56:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EDA678.2010907@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e67fcb10904200915y6d2cdf0dw9c634d7fc31b1a6d@mail.gmail.com>
Paddie O'Brien wrote:
>> Just a question:
>> Why would you track unsuccessful connections?
>> If a connection ATTEMPT is unsuccessful then there is no CONNECTION -> so
>> there is nothing to track about....
>
> I want to know who on our wireless network at work
> is attempting to connect to my machine.
>
> My (shaky) understanding was that with conntrack I would
> get a NEW event for any inbound first packet irrespective
> of whether it led to the creation of an ESTABLISHED
> connection or not.
No, at least the first packet must succesfully go through the whole
firewall code, otherwise it is not logged by the conntrack code.
--
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 15:01 conntrack -E problem Paddie O'Brien
2009-04-20 15:20 ` Gáspár Lajos
2009-04-20 16:15 ` Paddie O'Brien
2009-04-21 10:56 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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