Re: [SLUG] OT: M$ deals the final blow

From: Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Sun Sep 12 2004 - 09:55:33 EDT


On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 16:42, Paddy wrote:
> snip;
> If you run a full stateful firewall w/ nat any packets that come to your
> firewall that were not requested by your machine will get dropped at the
> external interface and even Mickey$oftwon't be able to do anything about it.

_If_ the connection is initiated _externally_. _If_ the connection is
"polled" by the system on your network, then it doesn't matter.

Hence why network firewalls are _useless_ without _at_least_ some
network IDS.

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Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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