* Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-20 20:50]: > One would only use sloppy state tracking on the load balancer, right?
not necessarily only, but that would be the most common use I bet. In general, you use it when you cannot avoid it, as in, the other option is to not filter stateful at all since you don't see all of the packets for the connection. > The firewall in front of everything still uses normal tracking? absolutely! -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam