[maemo-users] [maemo-users] Re: Battery Benchmarking?

[From: Kalle Valo]

"Dave Cridland" <dave at cridland.net> writes:

> On Mon Jan 15 09:09:37 2007, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Netfilter is used to track idle connections and that's why iptables
>> is
>> installed.
>
> Hmmm... Catching up on my mail, I noticed this one...

Same here, way too much email :)

> So what does "idle" mean

So that no packets are sent or received on that interface. But IIRC,
we ignore DHCP packets but any other IP packet is tracked.

> , and what does the 770 do when it sees an "idle" connection?
>
> Please tell me it doesn't kill the connection.

It closes the connection. But that's use configurable, it can be set
from the Connectivity Control Panel applet.

-- 
Kalle Valo