On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Del wrote:

> Alexander Else wrote:
> > 
> > How about:
> > ipchains -A input -d $ETH0_NET -s $ALL ! -y -j ACCEPT
> > 
> > This allows packets for already established sessions.  Your LAN users will
> > be able to establish outgoing connections still, but this rule will not
> > match packets with SYN set.
> 
> Fine for TCP.  What about UDP/DDP/GRE/ICMP etc?

UDP is a connectionless protocol. You can't distinguish at the packet
level between query packets and reply packets.

Charlie Brady
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