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Date:      30 Oct 2001 17:42:15 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net>
Cc:        Michael Scheidell <scheidell@fdma.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: can I use keep-state for icmp rules?
Message-ID:  <xzpn129yt94.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20011030102625.U73979-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>
References:  <20011030102625.U73979-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>

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Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net> writes:
> ipfw does not really track the state, but ipfilter (ipf) does. My
> understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong!) is that ipfw could be
> fooled by incoming packets spoofing the state of the connection, whereas
> ipf keeps its own table and relies on that instead of the incoming
> packets' assertions.	-=r=-

Not true.  Both ipf and ipfw can do both stateless and stateful
inspection.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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