At 04:08 PM 3/19/00 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>Stateful is evil, begon spawn of the devil!
>
>Seriously, though. Statefulness is the enemy of performance an
>realiability.

Statefulness is sometimes the preferred way for dealing with certain class 
of problems.  TCP itself is stateful because the benefits outweigh the 
complexity issues.

The right solution is to remove those people who would abuse their access 
to the net.  Failing that, we use the RIGHT tools to fix the problems -- 
and unfortunately a stateful protection system works better than any other 
scheme.

Of course, if you really want performance and reliability, just unplug your 
computer from all networks.  That is the best and safest course.

Satch

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