Nenad Andric wrote:
On Tue Jan 05, 2010 at 01:04:01PM -0800, Jay Hennigan <j...@west.net> wrote:

Or better:
    - Allow from anywhere port 80 to server port > 1023 established

 Adding "established" brings us back to stateful firewall!

Not really. It only looks to see if the ACK or RST bits are set. This is different from a stateful firewall which memorizes each outbound packet and checks the return for a match source/destination/sequence.

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