Well, that is a hard one. How we define what is stateful ? It all depends on the definition. In my point of view, it matchs states. How it does it is another matter entirely.
But maybe thats just me being naive. On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:14:36AM -0800, monk wrote: > No flames, please... But a question. > I have used ipchains for quite some time, but have never used > iptables(just started to dig in today). I read somewhere that iptables > in not actually stateful, that it just looks at some specifics of the > packet, but that is it. I am a little confused at what I have read, and > what I hear here. Someone lend a hand? Meanwhile, I'll keep reading > the iptables how-to info...Thanks. > > > Excuse me for asking, but why ipchains, when you have iptables > > avaliable ? > > The non-stateful packet inspection nature of ipchains makes it, in > > the best > > cases, tricky to use. And in the worst cases, dangerous. Also, the > > lost > > of functionality (compated with iptables) is easily noticed. -- Rodrigo Barbosa - rodrigob at tisbrasil.com.br TIS - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - http://www.tisbrasil.com.br/ Brainbench Certified -> Transcript ID #3332104
