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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

