Re: [fw-wiz] Stateful Proxying?

From: David Lang (david.lang@digitalinsight.com)
Date: 03/18/03

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    From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:37:57 -0800 (PST)

    even the most basic proxy (the plug-gw from the FWTK for example) is as
    stateful as most of the stateful filter firewalls out there. the state
    being refered to is the state of the TCP connection not of the application
    data.

    David Lang

     On Tue, 18 Mar 2003,
    Darren Reed wrote:

    > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:52:52 +1100 (EST)
    > From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
    > To: "Small, Jim" <jim.small@eds.com>
    > Cc: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
    > Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Stateful Proxying?
    >
    > In some email I received from Small, Jim, sie wrote:
    > > While talking about Firewalls and Proxies, I was asked, can you have a
    > > "Stateful Proxy"?
    >
    > To my way of thinking, if a proxy is stateful then it knows about the
    > application it is working on behalf of, not just .
    >
    > For something like FTP, it might be whether or not the user has made
    > a successful login or not.
    >
    > Of course I might be completely out of step with the rest of the world
    > on this :-)
    >
    > Darren
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