I don't need no stinking firewall!

Jay Hennigan jay at west.net
Fri Jan 8 06:55:25 UTC 2010


Nenad Andric wrote:
> On Tue Jan 05, 2010 at 01:04:01PM -0800, Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:

>> Or better:
>>     - Allow from anywhere port 80 to server port > 1023 established
> 
>  Adding "established" brings us back to stateful firewall!

Not really.  It only looks to see if the ACK or RST bits are set.  This 
is different from a stateful firewall which memorizes each outbound 
packet and checks the return for a match source/destination/sequence.

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