"Dave Cridland" <dave at cridland.net> writes: > On Mon Jan 15 09:09:37 2007, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Netfilter is used to track idle connections and that's why iptables >> is >> installed. > > Hmmm... Catching up on my mail, I noticed this one... Same here, way too much email :) > So what does "idle" mean So that no packets are sent or received on that interface. But IIRC, we ignore DHCP packets but any other IP packet is tracked. > , and what does the 770 do when it sees an "idle" connection? > > Please tell me it doesn't kill the connection. It closes the connection. But that's use configurable, it can be set from the Connectivity Control Panel applet. -- Kalle Valo
