Re: regarding firewall discussion
> mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> wrote:
> > regarding firewall discussion I'm uncertain how firewalls are
> > supposed to work.
> > I think the idea is that nothing is accepted unless it is in response
> > to a request.
> > What's to stop some spurious instructions being sent in response to
> > genuine request?
Just for the record, what you described (nothing is accepted unless it is in
response to a request) is more like the way that NAT worked (at least in its
original incarnations). (I say it that way because I haven't kept up with
NAT, so don't know how it may have changed).
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