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Re: Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls


From: George William Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 11:08:26 -0700



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On Apr 18, 2014, at 9:10 PM, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:

You can 'call' it all you like - but people who actually want to keep their servers up and running don't put stateful 
firewalls in front of them,


I don't know where you find ideas like this.

There are stateful firewalls in the security packages in front of all the internet facing servers in all the major 
service providers I've worked at.  Not *just* stateful firewalls, but they're in there.

That one company is trying something different does not mean there isn't widespread standardized use of the technology.


-george william herbert
george.herbert () gmail com



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