On 1/5/10 2:01 PM, Peter Hicks wrote:
Tony Finch wrote:
Stateful inspection is useful for breaking things in subtle and
hard-to-debug ways.
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http://fanf.livejournal.com/102206.html
http://fanf.livejournal.com/95831.html
Is that really stateful inspection? Isn't the SMTP fixup on a PIX an
application-level gateway?
I *though* most of the world turns SMTP fixup off because it's naff.
It is a ALG, and a completely braindead one at that. Nothing like
trying to figure out what an error message means when its just...
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The PIX's fixup for DNS packets have been causing issues on my end too
in one setup.
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Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
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