Hello, I would like to know, that if I have a filter like the one shown below (allowing outgoing connections of every protocol-type), does netfilter stores in the state of the established outgoing connection also the protocol which established the connection? (TCP, UDP, ....) Or does it opens the connection for any protocol? iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 --ctstate NEW, RELATED, ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT Thanks in advance -- Christoph Paasch -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html