Re: Gauntlet 5.5, is packet filtering stateful?

[Peter Bruderer <brudy () bruderer-research com>]

In Gauntlet 5.5 the packet filters do not maintain states. For my 
understanding, it was more to protect the actual system running the firewall 
and to let traffic pass the firewall which has no proxy. The filters are used 
also to forward packets to the local proxies, when running in transparent 
mode. Since Gauntlet is a classical application level gateway, states are 
maintained by using the different proxies.

On Saturday 01 September 2001 16:06, you wrote:
> Guantlet ver5.5 firewall has packet filtering capabilities.
> Are these packet filtering features stateful?  By stateful,
> I mean does Guantlet 5.5, using the packet filtering capabilities,
> have the intelligence to expect a return packet, similar to
> most stateful firewalls?
>
> Thanks!

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