In message <20010110043138.0E4BB35DC2@smb.research.att.com>, "Steven M. Bellovi
n" writes:
>Just what the name implies -- it creates a state table entry for 
>outgoing connections, and allows replies back in to such connections.

I'm pretty sure that the current version does this in some way, but I don't
recall how.  I think they're called "flows" or something similar.

-s