On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:23:35PM +0100, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > just one remark. the only thing everyone seemed to forget to mention > is that filtering udp packets is [simple?] packet filtering, not > stateful packet filtering, as udp is stateless by nature.
Stateless in the network stack, not in the application. The most often used types of UDP Traffic is "Request/Response" and "TCP Control Channel/UDP Answer Stream" both can be filtered by an application which keeps state (like ipautoportfw for example). Greetings Bernd
