On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:50:16 +0100, ed proclaimed... > Humm as far as I know a router does not have a state table as such, it > merely routes, as opposed to NAT. With NAT the FW indexes the source > port+address with a destination port+address, which yields a state. When > the FW sees another packet which matches either socket (port/address) it > will forward accordingly.
Uh, routers *do* have state tables. They're just not translated tables.
