High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel

Mon May 20 23:47:12 UTC 2013

On 5/20/13 2:45 PM, Matt Palmer wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 04:42:23PM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> On 5/19/13 4:27 PM, Ben wrote:
>>> Do you actually need stateful filtering?  A lot of people seem to think
>>> that it's important, when really they're accomplishing little from it,
>>> you can block ports etc without it.
>> I believe PCI compliance requires it, other things like it probably do too.
> There'd be very few PCI compliant sites if PCI required stateful firewalling
> in core routers.
Putting your border router in scope for your pci environment is imho an 
engineering/documentation mistake.
> - Matt
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