also sprach vdongen <vdongen@hetisw.nl> [2002.04.27.1812 +0200]: > > Does the connection tracking hold the connections even if the > > firewall > > was flushed? > > > > If it is so, is it a bug or a feature? > did you by chance forget to flush all tables and just flushed by doing > iptables -F ??? i have noticed behaviour like this before. on a machine doing PAT (masquerading), an /etc/init.d/iptables clear would not disrupt existing connections. that was kind of astonishing to see... can't say whether it's a bug or a feature, but it doesn't look very harmful... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck scintillation is not always identification for an auric substance.
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