Re: iptables 'new but not syn' packets

From: Cedric Blancher (blancher@cartel-info.fr)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 02:13:00 PST

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    le jeu 13-12-2001 à 15:20, Leonardo Rodrigues a écrit :
    >     Dropping INVALID packets seems to not deal with these packets. As I
    > stated, iptables recognizes them as NEW state. So a rule that drop
    > INVALID ones wouldnt care about them.
    
    INVALID is a specific state for packets which state cannot be classified
    as NEW, ESTABLISHED or RELATED. Which means INVALID packets are very
    ugly :/ NEW state is relative to existing connection table : a packet
    that cannot be attached to a existing connection is NEW, wether it is a
    TCP SYN or not.
    As an example, an ICMP error hich is not RELATED to an ESTABLISHED
    connection has an INVALID state.
    
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    Cédric Blancher
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