[ale] iptables issue

[Jim Popovitch]

JK wrote:
> This appears to be a server-side "close connection"
> packet (FIN).  It may be that it's a
> re-send of a FIN that had been sent previously,
> and at the time it was put in the outgoing queue,
> the connection was still open. By the time it
> got into the filter, though, the client had
> replied to the earlier FIN and the connection was
> closed.  (This is just a hypothesis; I don't
> know whether the kernel's handling of closing
> connections would actually admit this behavior.)

Interesting theory.   I checked the logs and sure enough every outbound 
block is a FIN.  So, is there a way to add a rule to just allow all 
outbound FINs?

Thanks!

-Jim P.