Re: how to harden iptables rules?

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On 03.03.2010 18:41, Pascal Hambourg wrote:

> Christoph Anton Mitterer a écrit :

>> if I block it completely (except echo-request) I also dont't get any  
>> ICMP error messages,
> 
> No, valid ICMP error messages have the ESTABLISHED state.

http://www.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutorial.html#ICMPCONNECTIONS
and the man page say different.

They don't talk about an icmp error message as a reply to a icmp
message, but just guessing, where's the differenece? why should
netfilter suddenly switch to ESTABLISHED for a icmp error reply?

Best regards

Mart
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