Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

Tony Finch wrote:

Stateful inspection is useful for breaking things in subtle and hard-to-debug ways.

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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. Peter