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Re: How stateful is stateful inspection?


From: "Sean Costello" <xlate () home com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:05:38 -0500

David Lang wrote:

Having just gone through an evaluation of firewall-1 I would like to point
out that they reccomend NOT to turn on the optional defragmentation
capibility for performance/memory reasons.



I think you may be confusing the defragmentation engine with Syn 
Defender since there is nothing optional about the way FW1 handles 
these packets since at least 3.0b...if not 3.0a.

Sean




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