"Joshua D. Drake" wrote: > Can someone tell me what we are going to do about firewalls that > impose their own rules outside of the control of the DBA? Has anyone actually seen a firewall configured for something so stupid as to allow *almost* all the various packets involved in using a TCP connection, but which suppressed just keepalive packets? That seems to be what you're suggesting is the risk; it's an outlandish enough suggestion that I think the burden of proof is on you to show that it happens often enough to make this a worthless change. -Kevin
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