Subject: Re: Firewall packets
To: Ben Livingood <bgood@nervana.montana.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-security
Date: 07/29/1999 14:58:53
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 05:01:05PM +0200, Ben Livingood wrote:
> I finally got my firewall(ip filter) working and it's filtering like
> crazy! When I looked over the log file it appears that for each session
> there is a tag associated with the "outside" host ( such as
> utexas.edu,1221). What is its purpose, other than to seperate sessions
> for each host? Or am I viewing a coincidence that the numbers differ for
> each session that it runs?

What you're seeing here is the name of the remote host and the name or number
of the remote port. This is not strictly a session, as the remote
port can be reused for 2 different sessions.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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