UDP Port Open - Shorewall

[Olivier Smedts]

2012/5/16 Shiv. NK <prabhpal at digital-infotech.net>:
> Dear List Members,
>
> i trust anyone of you would have experience with Shorewall Firewall. I
> have the following rule in rule file that is "/etc/shorewall/rules".
> Traffic is not passing through.
>
> ACCEPT          net     loc:72.211.25.74       udp  123
>
> This rule is working alright. i have problem understanding why udp has
> problem
> ACCEPT          net     loc:72.211.25.74       tcp  25

I don't see this question as related to FreeBSD -STABLE.

But maybe you should explicitely accept udp packet returns. Your
firewall (which I don't know) surely keeps states of TCP connections
and implicitely accepts packets returns.

Cheers.

>
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