Did you mean access control list (acl) in CISCO? iirc CISCO IOS(up to
v11)
it's stateless, as ipchains.

Just implement your own ipchains firewall. Your ISP has a lot of concern
to change the acl for you, probably due to understaffing in CISCO
experts.

Alan.


> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone tell me whether the Packet Filter on the Cisco IOS does statefull 
> packet inspection ? and whether I'll be losing by replacing it with IPChains 
> on Kernel 2.2.17?
> Biggest reason being I know nothing about the Cisco IOS and it's also a 
> leased router to which I don't have telnet or console access (only the ISP's 
> net is allowed access to) and I keep on needing to alter rules and it's a 
> bugger having to wait for the ISP to respond to requests :-(
> 
> PS. What resources are availble on the net on configuring and running a Linux 
> IPChains firewall ? (other that the HOWTO of course :-) )
> 
> Thanks,
> Eugene van Zyl
> 
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