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From: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh@teneoris.com>
Subject: Re: Questions about the workings of iptables
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:30:04 +0530
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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



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Ashutosh Naik
Teneoris Networks India Pvt. Ltd.