Firewall chapter paragraph explanation

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-12-27 16:55, Matteo Riondato <rionda at gufi.org> wrote:
> Hi folks!
> I'm translating the Firewall chapter of the Handbook in Italian [...]
> 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."

What this paragraph means is, IMHO:

    "keep state" means that the stateful filtering facility _will_ be
    activated...

> Am I wrong?

Not really.  The original paragraph is a bit strange.

> Is the chapter paragraph syntactically and grammatically correct?

Not all of it.  There are people working on this, AFAIK.