Does anyone have experience with the Marconi firewall/switches ?

The only real issue that I'm aware of is the "fast path" behaviour, such
that TCP packets which are not SYN/ACK packets are not checked against the
rulebase. Obviously established connections can be hijacked with this, but
if the connection to the intranet (or whatever we're worried about
protecting)
isn't allowed in the first place then there's nothing to be hijacked. Are
we aware of any attack (a DoS or whatever) that can be launched without
relying on hijacking a connection that's already set up? Typically a host
won't accept a TCP packet that is non SYN/ACK and which doesn't belong to
an established connection, but are there known loopholes in this?

Are there any other security issues with the Marconi switches besides fast
path?

Regards

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