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Date:      30 Oct 2001 17:59:58 +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:  <xzpvggxcbch.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20011030115012.Y73979-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>
References:  <20011030115012.Y73979-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>

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Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net> writes:
> Can you be more specific? They both do stateful inspections, yes, but ipfw
> inspects the incoming packets' headers for the state information, whereas
> ipf inspects its own state table to associate incoming packets with a
> particular connection.

The behaviour you describe is stateless inspection.  Ipfw has had
stateful inspection (the keep-state keyword) since February 2000.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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