On Friday 04 October 2002 9:31 am, Eric Leblond wrote: > >>my remote machines. My question is .... if this connection is marked as > >>ESTABLISHED, shouldnt it appear on 'netstat -an' entries ??? I think it > >>should, but it's not appearing there ..... > > Netstat give you information about sockets created on your box > and not about your box acting as a router. That is true, indeed. > That's why you don't see things appearing in ip_conntrack if your machine > is not or source or destination of the packet. Also true, however in this case the netfilter machine *was* one of the endpoints of the connection :-) Antony. -- All matter in the Universe can be placed into one of two categories: 1. things which need to be fixed 2. things which will need to be fixed once you've had a few minutes to play with them
