Re: Stateful Proxying?

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

Small, Jim wrote:
> While talking about Firewalls and Proxies, I was asked, can you have a
> "Stateful Proxy"?

Back in the early days of firewalls "stateful" was a marketing term
applied to certain low-end firewalls in order to make their prospective
customers think that they did the same kind of things proxies did.
"Stateful" implied that the firewall kept state - like a proxy. I'd say
"stateful" is a subset of what a proxy does, so, yes, proxies are
stateful.

mjr. 
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Marcus J. Ranum                         http://www.ranum.com
Computer and Communications Security    mjr () ranum com

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