On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:56:59AM +0200, Mikael Olsson wrote:
> Fortunatelly for the Internet but unfortunatelly for you, the problems
> with packet filters were known early on and other technologies were
> developed, such as proxies and stateful packet filters. Maybe if you
> explain this, they might be more eager to listen.
Well, how many problems beside missing support for dynamic authentication
and bad protection from stealth scans do u see if we asume that there is no
support for comlicated protocols needed?
I am not aware of a TCP server beeing exploitable if you cant send SYN
packets to it (perhaps someonecan correct me?) only DOS attacks are
possible, but those are a question of patch evel of the OS.
Greetings
Bernd
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