Subject: Re: ipfilter changes in 1.4.2
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/25/2000 09:36:31
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 03:52:42PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> In some email I received from Manuel Bouyer, sie wrote:
> > 
> > In fact the previous behavior was a bug :)
> > The new behavior cause problems only if you use ftp or rsh proxy (that is,
> > protocols that need incoming TCP connections to dynamic ports).
> > But the rigth thing to do here would be to have to ftp or rsh proxy
> > dynamically update the filters when required. Darren, are you listening ? :)
> 
> hmm ?  They should be setting up keep state things to let through the
> other connection automatically, if you use them.

I don't use keep-state. Can I use keep-state only for ftp proxy ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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