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Re: [suse-security] UDP and "-m state --state xxx"? (Re: [suse-security] Looking for a secure time service)
- From: "Ralph Seichter" <r.seichter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:19:19 +0200
- Message-id: <OF62DD989D.63CDB87B-ONC1256AB8.00282520@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Andreas Baetz wrote:
> according to the manual and to my tests it [stateful inspection] not
only
> works for tcp, but also for udp and icmp (for what else, I don't know)
Thanks, Andreas. I shall overhaul my personal iptables script and add
state checking to the rules dealing with UDP / ICMP based services. I
thought that stateful inspection was available for TCP only, but it is
good to know I made a mistake in assuming so.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Regards
Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter
ISC Informatik Service & Consulting GmbH
Tel +49 2241 867-0 mailto:r.seichter@xxxxxxxxxxx
Fax +49 2241 867-222 http://www.isc-inf.com/
> according to the manual and to my tests it [stateful inspection] not
only
> works for tcp, but also for udp and icmp (for what else, I don't know)
Thanks, Andreas. I shall overhaul my personal iptables script and add
state checking to the rules dealing with UDP / ICMP based services. I
thought that stateful inspection was available for TCP only, but it is
good to know I made a mistake in assuming so.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Regards
Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter
ISC Informatik Service & Consulting GmbH
Tel +49 2241 867-0 mailto:r.seichter@xxxxxxxxxxx
Fax +49 2241 867-222 http://www.isc-inf.com/
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