Re: Re (3): Saga of the installation of NetBSD on a Sparc 2

["Aaron J. Grier" <agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:42:29AM -0700, peasthope%shaw.ca@localhost wrote:
> By the way, how do PAM and iptables and tcpdump relate?  If PAM or
> iptables blocks the connection, will tcpdump be able to report
> anything useful?

I'm not sure how PAM plays into this since it deals with passwords and
authentication.

tcpdump pulls packets straight "off the wire", before they go through
packet filtering (iptables, pf, ipf).

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