Re: Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

[Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 1:08 PM, George William Herbert
<george.herbert () gmail com> wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2014, at 9:10 PM, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:
> 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.


There is not widespread use of stateful firewall units with the
stateful element as a single point of failure in front of large public
web farms.

This is different from  "security package software" on individual web servers.


There is plenty of one-off usage in small web farms, where DDoS is not
a concern.



> -george william herbert
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-JH