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On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:45:43AM -0000, Vic wrote:
>
> > I believe that the filtering is incorrect, and that the machine
> > returning its packet from a high port is correct, if unusual. I'm not
> > entirely sure *why* I believe that, though.
>
> I'm with Hugo - except I do know why I believe that.
>
> UDP is a connectionless protocol; all that matters is what's in the
> payload. Previous packets in the datastream are irrelevant to the delivery
> of this one.
>
> So the fact that it's coming from a different source port to the one that
> the previous packet went to doesn't matter; it's still a UDP packet, and
> that doesn't depend on any connection state.
I could have made the same argument -- however, that's still not
authoritative (it's merely highly plausible). What I was trying to say
was that I couldn't point to the line of the RFC that states that it's
OK(*). :)
Hugo.
(*) And unlike Ibid, below, I don't know everything. Yet.
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