Re: Matching UDP broadcasts using RELATED

[Loïc Minier <lool+netfilter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

yu5p97f02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Sun, Jan 04, 2004:

> For protocols which work by initiating a request using a UDP broadcast and
> expecting a reply for a specific host, is there any way to match the reply
> back to the original broadcast.
> 
> An example of something that does this is smbmount, a request is broadcast to
> the localnet with a port set to the netbios-ns port, and then smbmount expects
> a reply from a particular host to the initiating port.

 I think this should go in a conntrack module, but there's always the
 possibility for you to write such rules manually with the "recent"
 module.  See ``iptables -m recent --help''.

   Regards,

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Loïc Minier <lool@xxxxxxxx>