stateful vs stateless

[Jochen Vogel <jvogel () it-sec de>]

hi,

-what are doing the stateful and stateless doing exactly in an IPS?
-what are the differences?
-how is the behaviour in an high availabilty environment?

thx for infos
jo 

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