In message <[email protected]>, Remko Lodder <[email protected]> wrote: >Reading the mails from this thread leads me to believe that there is no >stateful firewall concept in place? I am not the poster to whom you were responding ([email protected]), however speaking only for myself I will confess that yes, in my case at least, although I have used ipfw for many years, I have never (until now) found any compelling need to either understand or make use of any of ipfw's stateful capabilities. >In my believing it is so that if you do not filter traffic, you are >making a deliberate choice to let everyone smack your service(s). I personally *do* most certainly filter traffic, and have done, since I first connected *any* machine of mine to the Internet. I can assure yoy that I never made any deliberate choice to let everyone smack me around. Nontheless, that clearly did happen, eventually, when evil-doers decided, relatively recently, to use & abuse me as an NTP reflector, but my participation in this was not in any sense deliberate on my part, and arose strictly out of ignorance, for which I am suitably humbled and apologetic. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"