HP-UX IPFilter V18.0 Administrator Guide for HP-UX 11i v3

◦ TCP ports and port ranges
◦ UDP ports and port ranges
◦ ICMP message type and code
◦ Combination of TCP flags
◦ Network interface
• Control of incoming TCP connections through Dynamic Connection Allocation (DCA)
• Support for NAT, which enables an intermediate HP-UX system to act as a translator of IP
addresses and network ports
• Return of ICMP error/TCP reset messages for blocked packets
• Maintenance of packet state information for TCP, UDP, and ICMP
• Maintenance of fragment state information for any IPv4 packet and the same rule to all related
fragments
• Capability to drop all fragmented traffic if specified by rule
• Creation of extensive logs when required
1.2 Supported and unsupported features
See Appendix A (page 97) for a list of supported and unsupported features, including utilities and
commands distributed with the open source IPFilter product but not supported by HP. This appendix
also lists the network interfaces that are supported and unsupported with HP-UX IPFilter.
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