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