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Matteo Riondato wrote:
> Hi folks!
> I'm translating the Firewall chapter of the Handbook in Italian (and
> while doing this, I'm also trying to clarify a bit the English version,
> as pointed out in PR docs/75422). 
> I find real difficulties in understanding and translating lines
> 1022-1024 of chapter.sgml :
> <title>STATEFUL</title>
> <para><literal>keep state</literal> indicates that on a pass rule, any
> packets that match the rules selection parameters is to activate the
> stateful filtering facility.</para>
> 
> I think it means:
> "keep state" means that the stateful filtering facility must be
> activated for any packet that matches the rule selection parameters of a
> pass rule."
> 
> 
> Am I wrong? Is the chapter paragraph syntactically and grammatically
> correct?
> 
> Best Regards

Hi Matteo,

The chapter is not syntactically and gramatically alright. We
are working on that (Simon is, and i am trying to help :)).

I think your explaination is more clear then the current
one :-).


Cheers:)

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      Remko Lodder  ** remko@elvandar.org
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