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Re: [FW-1] Question about open connections when closing firewall



nice link!  thanks

>>> [email protected] 10/09/01 02:47AM >>>
Check Lance Spitzner's doc on the state table:

http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/fwtable.html


Cheers,
Anders :)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Sunnerstig [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 8. oktober 2001 15:24
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FW-1] Question about open connections when closing firewall
>
>
> Hi.
> Im wondering, how does FW-1 handle open connections to a box,
> when you close
> any inbound traffic to that box, are any open connections
> immediately cut
> off, or are they allowed to finnish their traffic?
>
> Example, say we have a box 1.2.3.4, listening for traffic on
> port 1, and
> connections remain open for an avarge of 60 seconds.
>
> 1) connection #1 is opened
> 2) firewall gets closed on port 1 to 1.2.3.4
> 3) any new inbound connections are obviously refused
> 4) the answer for connection #1 comes back
>
> In this case, what would happen to #1?
>
> Regards
> Johan
>
>
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