On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 09:15 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> With UDP, there is no connection to break.

Right.  There is a conntrack association with the addr:port tuple though
that prevents changes in tables from affecting it's NAT mappings.

> The conntrack module tracks
> related UDP packets, but cutter has no relevance to UDP since it is
> connectionless.

Right.  That is what I was already saying.  While cutter can break a
conntrack entry for TCP because iptables removes the conntrack when it
sees the RST packets, no such thing exists for UDP.

b.

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