Re: Can a linux firewall protect against SYN flooding (and otherattacks)?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> On 2000-03-17T17:50:56,
>    "Christopher E. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> >     Sure, it protects you from SYN attacks, but it is a stateful
> > device, and evil.
> 
> Stateful filtering is generally considered a good thing.

Stateful is evil, begon spawn of the devil!

Seriously, though. Statefulness is the enemy of performance an
realiability.

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