On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Carlos Villegas wrote:

> iptables IS stateful. Doesn't anyone read the docs anymore :)

I just checked and iptables still doesn't do correct TCP window tracking
(real stateful TCP packet giltering [1]) by default.

You have to apply a patch for it to do so:
http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/pomlist/pom-extra.html#tcp-window-tracking

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jett Tayer wrote:
> > Linux has its own packet filtering mechanism. checkout  www.netfilter.org
> > though not as stateful as our ipfilter :)
> >
> > Ayon sa chikka ni Phil Dibowitz noong Thursday 20 March 2003 14:02, ay ganito
> > ang kanyang sinabi:
> > > Dave Mehler wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >     Does anyone have ipfilter running under Linux? If so, can you tell me
> > > > how you got it working.
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > Dave.
> > >
> > > Iy doesn't work on linux... unless your running 2.0.x... in which case
> > > you might as well jsut give up right now.
> > >
> > > Doesn't anyone read the docs anymore?

[1] http://www.iae.nl/users/guido/papers/tcp_filtering.ps.gz


Cheers,

Dries
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