On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Tony Nugent wrote: > I have never heard of a "stateful inspection firewall", and I've > been building firewalls with ipfwadm and ipchains for several years > (mostly self-taught with howtos etc and experience). Netfilter is > an option I want to start using soon, another learning spree... "stateful inspection" is just another name of "connection tracking" - i.e. keeping the state of active connections and filtering based on that. (in iptables "-m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED") c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
