Firewall robustness

[Thierry GUINET <thierry () namsa nato int>]

Hello all,
I must confess I didn't spent much time to check whether this subject
had already been debated. If it has, shame on me for not having found
the info. In the later case would people flaming me be so kind to
accompany the flames with some pointers to the info :)
I also certainly not want to start one of those Unix vs NT war.

This being said here is my question: Is it correct to believe that
attacks directed against the TCP/IP stack (like the famous (infamous?)
OOB attack family ) could lead to crash an NT Firewall where a Unix
based firewall should continue to run?
TIA for the input,

Thierry
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