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Network Flow Analysis
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Network Flow Analysis

by Michael W. Lucas
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 18m
English
No Starch Press
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Logical Operators in Filter Definitions

When you put multiple match conditions in a filter definition, flow-nfilter places a logical "and" between them. For example, the following filter shows all traffic that runs over TCP and has a source port of 25. This passes an email server's responses to a connection.

filter-definition TCPport25
    match ip-protocol TCP
    match ip-source-port port25

You can use other logical operators to build very complicated filters.

Logical "or"

When I try to analyze a connection problem, I usually want to see both sides of the conversation. I want a filter that will show connections to port 25 as well as from port 25. For this, use the or operator as follows:

filter-definition email match ip-protocol TCP match ip-source-port ...
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