I believe the BSD ipfilter *is* stateful.

At 08:42 AM 3/27/2002 +0100, The Pal / Patrik Bodin wrote:
>On 2002-03-27 10:30, Peter Trifonov revealed:
>
>PT> Hello everybody!
>PT>
>PT> I consider replacement of Cisco PIX 515 (Restricted) firewall in a small
>PT> corporate network with *BSD software firewall. Can anybody tell me how
>PT> close can one approximate PIX's functionality with BSD?
>
>You can't make it do the _same_ stateful inspection as the PIX does, and you
>can't make it achieve the same prestanda without using a more powerful 
>machine,
>but apart from that you can make it do everything the PIX can. In addition you
>can make it do the ocean of things that UNIX:es can do, but I would let it 
>do as
>little as possible outside firewalling and related.
>
>/P
>
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