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Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!


From: Peter Hicks <peter.hicks () poggs co uk>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:01:27 +0000

Tony Finch wrote:

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

Is that really stateful inspection? Isn't the SMTP fixup on a PIX an application-level gateway?

I *though* most of the world turns SMTP fixup off because it's naff.


Peter


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