On 29/08/06, paul at clubi.ie <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
> Stateful firewalling is *stupid*. To have state as a goal is *brain
> dead*. We need a campaign to drum this into people heads, as has been
> done for "NAT is evil".
Can you expand on why? I know i've been using iptables to do stateful
firewalling for some years, and haven't had issues with it.
Steve
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