On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Darren Bolding wrote: > To reiterate- my entire point is that stateful firewalls are at least > sometimes useful in front of large websites.
I understand completely; I simply disagree, stating my reasons for doing so in detail inline. It's my contention that under no circumstances are stateful firewalls *ever* useful in front of *any* Web server, at *any* time, in *any* deployment scenario, either public or private. ;> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken