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Re: ssh connection survives reboot of stateful iptables router



also sprach Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org> [2006.07.04.1505 +0200]:
> >  accept ESTABLISHED,RELATED
> >  drop INVALID
> >  drop ! NEW
> >  drop ! --syn
> >  accept --dport ssh
> >  drop
> 
> Very bad ! The accept rule relies on previous drop rules.

I understand the fundamental issue very well.
The things that can go wrong here are:

  - I accidentally delete or comment out one of the drop rules
  - "drop ! NEW" doesn't do the same as "!drop NEW" due to a bug
  - the universe folds in on itself

Are there any other ones I am overlooking?

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