[120861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Jan 5 15:52:31 2010
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:51:47 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Brian Johnson <bjohnson@drtel.com>
In-Reply-To: <29A54911243620478FF59F00EBB12F4701B27EDF@ex01.drtel.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Brian Johnson wrote:
>
> Given this information, and not prejudging any responses, exactly what
> is a firewall for and when is statefull inspection useful?
Stateful inspection is useful for breaking things in subtle and
hard-to-debug ways.
http://fanf.livejournal.com/102206.html
http://fanf.livejournal.com/95831.html
Tony.
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