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From: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh@teneoris.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Questions about the workings of iptables
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:30:04 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <opsbtxeefvsueqbq@192.168.1.10> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407271522.40503.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:22:40 +0100, Antony Stone 
<Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 July 2004 2:41 pm, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 03:20, Ashutosh wrote:
>> > > No.   AFAIK the connection tracking in netfilter checks only src+dst
>> > > IP+port,
>> > > nothing else.
>> >
>> > .. And the Protocol
>>
>> and I would assume there is a timer - John
>
> Oh yes, there are timers, but that's not part of the information from the
> original packet which gets matched in future packets, which is what I was
> discussing, and what I think the original question was about (!?).

Yes, What actually get matched is only the 5 tuples.. 
srcIP+destIP+srcport+destport+Protocol



-- 
Ashutosh Naik
Teneoris Networks India Pvt. Ltd.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-28  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-26 12:51 Questions about the workings of iptables Small, Jim
2004-07-26 13:17 ` Antony Stone
2004-07-26 14:04   ` Sven Schuster
2004-07-27  7:20   ` Ashutosh
2004-07-27  8:47     ` Antony Stone
2004-07-27 13:41     ` John A. Sullivan III
2004-07-27 14:22       ` Antony Stone
2004-07-28  4:00         ` Ashutosh Naik [this message]
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2004-07-26 13:43 Jason Opperisano

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