are the four packet "states" all-encompassing?

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On 24 Oct 2002, Cedric Blancher wrote:

> Le jeu 24/10/2002 =E0 13:37, Robert P. J. Day a =E9crit :
> >   are the four conntrack states NEW, ESTABLISHED, RELATED and
> > INVALID all-encompassing?  that is, does every single packet
> > fall into one and only one of these states?
> =

> Yes.
> One very packet can have one state, and one.

so every syntactically correct ("well-formed"??) packet is one
of NEW, ESTABLISHED or RELATED, while all others are just
INVALID?  ok, i can accept that, thanks.

rday




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