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From: "Greg Hennessy" <Greg.Hennessy@nviz.net>
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> >
> >   
> is it safe to say to just remove the "keep state" behavior 
> for udp and other connectionless packets? 

No. Anything but. 

If you don't keep state, you would have to specifically code wide open
ingress packet filtering rules for reply traffic. 


Greg