In message <200101100417.f0A4HLH00837@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writes
:
>In message <20010110035020.8A2EA35DC2@smb.research.att.com>, "Steven M. Bellov
>i
>n" writes:
>>Apart from the question of whether or not BSDI will release it, does it 
>>have the 'keep state' feature that the NetBSD ipf has?  (At least, the 
>>documentation says it has it...)  Last time I read the BSD/OS man pages 
>>(for 4.1), I didn't see any equivalent.
>
>What's a "keep state" feature do?
>
Just what the name implies -- it creates a state table entry for 
outgoing connections, and allows replies back in to such connections.

		--Steve Bellovin