On Jan 5, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: > We have such a configuration in progress, it works great without any of the > issues you're proposing.
Then you aren't testing it to destruction, heh. ;> If it's a stateful firewall, and state-tracking is turned on, it's quite possible to craft sufficient pathological traffic which conforms to the firewall policies and yet which leads to state-table inspection. And the stateful firewall serves no purpose in front of servers, in which *every incoming packet* is unsolicited. Far more sensible to enforce policy in stateless ACLs in ASIC-based router/switch hardware. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken
