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

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2000-03-19T16:08:21,
   Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Stateful is evil, begon spawn of the devil!
> 
> Seriously, though. Statefulness is the enemy of performance an
> realiability.

That is incorrect. It is the enemy of KISS to a certain degree though.

You will be happy to learn iptables / Netfilter (2.3 / 2.4 filtering
framework) is stateful.

(Finally!)

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Development HA

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